Good morning. All those hearing Paul continued to be amazed,
and were saying, is this not he who in Jerusalem destroyed those who called on
this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them back bound
before the chief priests? But he kept increasing in strength and confounding
the Jews who lived in the city by proving this Jesus is the Christ. When many
days had elapsed, the Jews plotted together to do away with him. If you read in
the book of Galatians, there Paul is saying that the many days was three years,
part of which was spent in Arabia, after which he came back to the city. Their
plot became known to him. They were watching the gates day and night so that
they might put him to death; but his disciples took him by night and let him down
through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket. When he came to
Jerusalem, he was trying to associate with the disciples; but they were all
afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. That is the same reaction
that Ananias had when Jesus told him to go lay hands on Saul. But Barnabas took
hold of him and brought him to the apostles and described to them how he had
seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how Saul had
spoken up boldly in the name of Jesus. I don’t know how Barnabas knew this. My
Bible says that in Galatians we learn that all of the apostles were away except
Peter and James, the Lord’s brother. Father help this to be a great day for the
reader. Help him/her to have clarity about his/her future.
When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them to not continue, because he perceived that not only would there be a loss of the cargo but also of their lives.
Good morning. When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion. Notice that “we“ returns. Luke has not been mentioned during the entire two years that Paul was at Caesarea. I guess it is safe to assume that he was in the area during this time. We will leave out the names of a bunch of places where they passed. They had sailed for a good many days and began to have trouble with the wind. This was a warning of what was about to happen. When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast (Day of Atonement) was already over, Paul began to admonish them to not continue, because he perceived that not only would there be a loss of the cargo but also of their lives. The centurion was more persuaded by the pilot and the captain of the ship than by what was being said by Paul. They did not want to get stuck for the winter in the port where they were located. They actually were only g...
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