When these things were fulfilled, Paul resolved in his spirit, having gone through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."

Now on the next night the Lord stood by him and said, "Take courage, Paul; for as you solemnly testified about the things concerning Me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome."

Then Festus, having talked together with the council, answered, " Have you appealed to Caesar? Before Caesar you shall go!"

But when I came to understand him to have done nothing worthy of death, and also he had appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.

You took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the matter might be as it is today, and many people might be fed.

But the counsel of the Lord endures forever, the thoughts of His heart from generation to generation.

For the inward thought of man shall give thanks to You, and the memorial of his inward thought shall keep a feast to You.

[There are] many thoughts in a man's heart, but the counsel of the Lord abides forever.

TETH. It is good for a man when he bears a yoke in his youth.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and He does according to His will in the host of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand His power, and say to Him, What have You done?

For this reason I also have been hindered many times from coming to you.

whenever I travel to Spain, I shall come to you. For I hope [while] traveling through to see you, and to be sent forward there by you, if I may be filled in part [from] you first.

For Macedonia and Achaia thought it good to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

Therefore, having finished and having sealed to them this fruit, I shall go by way of you to Spain.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian [Regiment],

And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy with Priscilla his wife (because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome); he came to them,

Greet all your leaders, and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.

But the centurion was persuaded by the helmsman and the ship owner, rather than by the things being said by Paul.

But the centurion, wanting to rescue Paul, hindered them in their intention, and commanded that those who were able to swim to jump down first to go toward the land,

And they said, "Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and fearing God, having a good reputation among all the nation of the Jews, was given a revelation by a holy angel to send for you to his house, and to hear words from you."

who immediately having taken along soldiers and centurions, ran down among them. And when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

And the centurion, hearing this, going to the commander he reported, saying, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman."

And Paul, summoning one of the centurions and said, "Lead this young man away to the commander, for he has something to tell him."

And ordering the centurion to keep watch over Paul and to let him have some liberty, and not to forbid [any] of his own to serve or to come to him.

Now when we came to Rome, the centurion handed over the prisoners to the captain of the guard; but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier guarding him.

Now when He had entered Capernaum, a centurion approached Him, begging Him,

And Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him."

For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this [one], 'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

So when the centurion and those with him guarding Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they were greatly afraid, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God!"

And a certain centurion's servant, who was highly valued by him, was sick and about to die.

And when the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous Man!"

But when I came to understand him to have done nothing worthy of death, and also he had appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.