\subsection{Acts 28}
\VS{1} And having been saved, we then knew that the island is called Miletus. 
\VS{2} And the natives were granting not the ordinary kindness to us, for 
having lit [a] fire they received us all because of the rain having come and 
because of the cold. 
\VS{3} So Paul having gathered up [a] certain multitude of 
sticks and placed them on the fire, [a] snake having come out from the heat 
fastened upon his hand. 
\VS{4} Now when the natives saw the wild-beast 
hanging from his hand, they were saying to one another: Certainly this man 
is [a] murderer, who having been saved from the sea, justice does not permit to 
be zoe-living\fnZoe{}. 
\VS{5} On the one hand therefore having shaken the wild-beast off 
into the fire he suffered nothing evil, 
\VS{6} but on the other they were 
awaiting him to be [about] to be becoming swollen, or to be falling down suddenly 
dead. So after much [time] they having awaited and having beheld nothing unusual 
come to pass upon him, having changed [their] minds they were saying him to be [a] 
god. 
\VS{7} Now in the environs around that place were possessions to the 
foremost [man] of the island by name Poplios, who having received us, three days 
[he] hospitably lodged [us]. 
\VS{8} Now it came to pass the father of Poplios, 
having been seized by fevers and dysentery, laid down, to whom Paul having 
gone in and having prayed, having laid [his] hands upon him, [he] healed him. 
\VS{9} Now when this came to pass, the rest of those in the island having 
feeblenesses were also coming to [him] and were being healed, 
\VS{10} who also 
honored us with many honors, and when we departed they placed [supplies] towards [our] 
needs. 
\VS{11} So after three months we were brought by boat which had 
wintered in the island, [a ship] of Alexandria, marked Dioskourois. 
\VS{12} And 
having been brought down to Syracuse, we remained three days, 
\VS{13} whence 
having gone around we arrive in Rhegium. And after one day [a] south wind 
having come to pass, we came on the second day to Potiolus, 
\VS{14} where 
having found brothers, we were called upon by them to remain seven days. And 
thus we came to Rome. 
\VS{15} And from there the brothers, having heard the 
[news] concerning us, came to meet us as far as the Forum of Appius and The Three 
Taverns, which Paul having seen, having thanked God, he received courage. 
\VS{16} So when we came to Rome, it was permitted to Paul to be abiding by 
himself with the soldier guarding him. 
\VS{17} So it came to pass after 
three days Paul summoned those being foremost of the Jews. So when they were 
gathered he was saying to them: I, men, brothers, having done nothing 
against the people or the customs [given] to the fathers, [a] prisoner from Jerusalem 
was I delivered up to the hands of the Romans, 
\VS{18} who having examined 
me intended to release [me] because of no cause of death being in me. 
\VS{19} But the Jews having spoken against [me], I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, 
not as having anything to be accusing of my nation. 
\VS{20} Because of this 
therefore have I called upon you to see [you] and to speak [to you] with reason. For on 
account of the hope if Israel do I wear this chain. 
\VS{21} So they said to 
him: We have neither received letter concerning you from Judea, nor having 
arrived has any of the brothers reported or spoken any wicked\fnPoneros{} [thing] concerning you. 
\VS{22} But we desire to hear from you what you think, for indeed 
concerning this sect, [it] is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against. 
\VS{23} So having appointed for him [a] day, more came to him in the lodging 
place, to whom he set forth testifying of the kingdom of God, persuading 
them both from the law of Moses and [from] the prophets, from early to evening. 
\VS{24} And some were being persuaded to the [things] said, but others were not 
believing. 
\VS{25} And being at variance towards one another they were 
departing, Paul having spoken one word, that: Well did the Holy Spirit speak 
through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers 
\VS{26} saying\footnote{Isa.6:9-10}:

\begin{verse}
Go to this people and say, \\
With hearing you will hear and will \negd{not} understand, \\
And looking you will look and will \negd{not} see. \\
\VS{27} For the heart of this people has grown fat\footnote{or ``thick''}, 
\\
And with their ears they heard with disgust, \\
And their eyes they have closed, \\
Lest they see with their eyes, \\
And hear with their ears, \\
And understand with [their] heart and turn back, \\
And I heal them.
\end{verse}

\VS{28} Let\fnImperative{} it therefore be known to you that to the 
nations\footnote{i.e. the Gentiles} is sent this salvation of God, they 
themselves indeed will hear [it]. [
\VS{29} And he having said these [things], the Jews 
departed, having much dispute among themselves.]\footnote{omit vs. 29: 
\papyrus{74}\sinaiticus{}B; include vs. 29: \koine\ \vulgate\ } 
\VS{30} So he remained two whole 
years in his own rented house, and he received all those coming in to him, 
\VS{31} proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching the [things] concerning the Lord 
Jesus Christ with all openness\footnote{or ``boldness"} unhindered.
