For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

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.

“When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

“Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: “‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who was paralyzed.

And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears.

And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied: “Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.

Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.

When two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And desiring to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.

He lived there two whole years at his own expense, and welcomed all who came to him,