There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?

And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.”

and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’

Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.

And God spoke to this effect—that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.

At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.

When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch.

But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.

When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload its cargo.

But soon a tempestuous wind, called the northeaster, struck down from the land.

When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.

The Shipwreck

Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned if possible to run the ship ashore.

But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land,

and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all were brought safely to land.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us and entertained us hospitably for three days.