Acts 28:21-23

Expanded Bible

²¹ They ·answered [said to] Paul, “We have received no letters from Judea about you. None of our Jewish brothers who have come from there brought news or told us anything bad about you. ²² But we ·want to hear [consider it worth hearing] your ideas, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this ·religious group [sect].”

²³ Paul and the people ·chose [arranged; appointed] a day for a meeting and on that day ·many more of the Jews [^La great number] met with Paul at the place he was staying. He spoke to them ·all day long [^Lfrom morning until evening]. Using the law of Moses and the prophets’ writings [^Cthe whole Old Testament], he explained [^Lby testifying/bearing witness about] the kingdom of God, and he tried to persuade them to believe these things about Jesus.