Peshitta New Testament

Peshitta New Testament — Murdock — Section 86

ACTS, XXVII. 271 22 songbt to kill me. (22) But unto this day God bath helped me ; and lo, I stand and bear testi- monjj to the small and to the great; yet saying nothing aside from Moses and the prophets, but the very things which they declared were to take place: 23 (23) [namely,] that Messiah would suffer, and would become the first fruits^ of the resurrection from the dead; and that he would proclaim light to the 2-i jjeople and to the Gentiles. — (24) And when Paul had extended his defence thus far, Festus cried, with a loud voice : Paul, thou art deranged : much 25 study hath deranged thee, (25) Paul replied to him : I am not deranged, excellent Festus ; but 26 speak words of truth and rectitude. (26) And king Agrippa is also well acquainted with these things ; and I therefore speak confidently before him, because I suppose not one of these things hath escaped his knowledge ; for they were not done in 27 secret. (27) King Agrippa, believest thou the 28 prophets ? I know that thou believest. (28) King Agrippa said to him : Almost, thou persuadest me 29 to become a Christian. (29) And Paul said: I would to God, that not only thou, but likewise all that hear me this day, were almost, and altogether, 30 as I am, aside from these bonds. (30) And the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and 31 those who sat with them. (31) And when they had gone out, they conversed with one another, and said : This man hath done nothing worthy of death 32 or of bonds. (32) And Agrippa said to Festus: The man might be set at liberty, if he had not an- nounced an appeal to Ctesar. XXVII. And Festus commanded, respecting him, that he should be sent to Italy, unto Ca?sar. And he delivered Paul, and other prisoners with him, to a certain man, a centurion of the Augustan cohort, ^^ 2 whose name was Julius. (2) And when w^e were to depart, we embarked in a ship which was from the city of Adraniyttium, and was going to the country of Asia. And there embarked with us in the ship, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of the city of