¹¹ But if I don’t understand a language, I will be a foreigner to someone who speaks it, and the one who speaks it will be a foreigner to me.

² The people of the island were very kind to us. It was cold and rainy, so they built a fire on the shore to welcome us.

¹¹ In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile,^[a] circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized,^[b] slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.

²¹ It is written in the Scriptures^[a]:

¹⁴ For I have a great sense of obligation to people in both the civilized world and the rest of the world,^[a] to the educated and uneducated alike.

⁴ The people of the island saw it hanging from his hand and said to each other, “A murderer, no doubt! Though he escaped the sea, justice will not permit him to live.”