Lexicon :: Strong's G2248 - hēmas

“Therefore, from among the men who have accompanied us during the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us ​— ​

Peter, along with John, looked straight at him and said, “Look at us.”

“There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved.”

“Didn’t we strictly order you not to teach in this name? Look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”

The Twelve summoned the whole company of the disciples and said, “It would not be right for us to give up preaching the word of God to wait on tables.

“But the one who was mistreating his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying: Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?

“They told Aaron: Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.

“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came down on them, just as on us at the beginning.

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form! ”

strengthening the[fn] disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, “It is necessary to go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.”

After he had seen the vision, we immediately made efforts to set out for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

But Paul said to them, “They beat us in public without a trial, although we are Roman citizens, and threw us in jail. And now are they going to send us away secretly? Certainly not! On the contrary, let them come themselves and escort us out.”

These men went on ahead and waited for us in Troas,

After we tore ourselves away from them, we set sail straight for Cos, the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

When our time had come to an end, we left to continue our journey, while all of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach to pray,

He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him over to the Gentiles.’ ”

When we reached Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters welcomed us warmly.

When it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Regiment.[fn]

There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.

For many days neither sun nor stars appeared, and the severe storm kept raging. Finally all hope was fading that we would be saved.

“But we have to run aground on some island.”

The local people showed us extraordinary kindness. They lit a fire and took us all in, since it was raining and cold.

Now in the area around that place was an estate belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

So they heaped many honors on us, and when we sailed, they gave us what we needed.