Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Acts by R F Weymouth
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Assize-days and there are Proconsuls: let the persons
interested accuse one another. 019:039 But if you desire anything further, it will have to be settled in the regular assembly. 019:040 For in connexion with to-day's proceedings there is danger of our being charged with attempted insurrection, there having been no real reason for this riot; nor shall we be able to justify the behaviour of this disorderly mob." 019:041 With these words he dismissed the assembly. 020:001 When the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples; and, after speaking words of encouragement to them, he took his leave, and started for Macedonia. 020:002 Passing through those districts he encouraged the disciples in frequent addresses, and then came into Greece, and spent three months there. 020:003 The Jews having planned to waylay him whenever he might be on the point of taking ship for Syria, he decided to travel back by way of Macedonia. 020:004 He was accompanied as far as the province of Asia by Sopater the Beroean, the son of Pyrrhus; by the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; by Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and by the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. 020:005 These brethren had gone on and were waiting for us in the Troad. 020:006 But we ourselves sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and five days later joined them in the Troad, where we remained for a week. 020:007 On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul, who was going away the next morning, was preaching to them, and prolonged his discourse till midnight. 020:008 Now there were a good many lamps in the room upstairs where |
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