to the beloved Apphia, Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:

Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and [saying,] "This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ."

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.

for he vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the kingdom of God.

"Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come --

"that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the [Jewish] people and to the Gentiles."

"And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers.

"Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come --

"Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?"

And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

Then He said to them, "These [are] the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and [the] Prophets and [the] Psalms concerning Me."

And in a window sat a certain young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep. He was overcome by sleep; and as Paul continued speaking, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.

Now when he had come up, had broken bread and eaten, and talked a long while, even till daybreak, he departed.

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.