# Acts 28

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Once we were safely on shore, we learned that the island was called Malta.
2. The local people showed us extraordinary kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all, because it had started to rain and it was cold.
3. Paul gathered a bundle of brushwood, and as he put it on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.
4. When the local people saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer. Though he escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
5. But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no harm.
6. They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began saying that he was a god.
7. Nearby there was an estate belonging to the chief official of the island, a man named Publius. He welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.
8. Publius’s father was lying in bed, sick with fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him, and after praying, he laid his hands on him and healed him.
9. After this happened, the rest of the sick people on the island also came and were cured.
10. They honored us in many ways, and when we were ready to sail, they put on board the supplies we needed.
11. After three months we set sail in a ship that had wintered at the island. It was an Alexandrian ship with the Twin Brothers as its figurehead.
12. We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days.
13. From there we sailed around and arrived at Rhegium. After one day a south wind came up, and on the second day we reached Puteoli.
14. There we found brothers and sisters, who invited us to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome.
15. The brothers and sisters there had heard about us, and they came as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.
16. When we arrived in Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.
17. Three days later he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.
18. They examined me and wanted to release me, because I was not guilty of anything deserving death.
19. But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar, though I had no charge to bring against my own nation.
20. For this reason I asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am wearing this chain.”
21. They replied, “We have not received any letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers who have come here has reported or said anything bad about you.
22. But we would like to hear from you what you think, for we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect.”
23. So they set a day to meet with him, and even more of them came to him at the place where he was staying. From morning until evening he explained and testified to them about the kingdom of God, and he tried to persuade them about Jesus from the law of Moses and from the Prophets.
24. Some were persuaded by what he said, but others refused to believe.
25. They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this one statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when he said to your ancestors through Isaiah the prophet,
26. ‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing but never understand, and you will keep on looking but never see.”
27. For the heart of this people has grown dull; with their ears they can barely hear, and they have closed their eyes, so that they will not see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn back, and I would heal them.’
28. So let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen.”
29. [After he had said these things, the Jews left, arguing vigorously among themselves.]
30. Paul stayed there two whole years in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him.
31. He proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.

## Nearby chapters

[Acts 27](https://www.lumin.faith/read/acts/27.md)
[Romans 1](https://www.lumin.faith/read/romans/1.md)

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