Book of Common Prayer

²⁴ While Paul was saying these things Festus shouted, `Paul, you are crazy! All your book learning is making you crazy.'

²⁵ Paul said, `No, great ruler Festus, I am not crazy. But what I say is true. It makes good sense.

²⁶ The king knows about these things. I am not afraid to talk to him about them. I am sure that not one of these things happened without his knowing about it. This did not happen in secret.

²⁷ King Agrippa do you believe the prophets? I know you believe them.'

²⁸ Then Agrippa said to Paul, `You are trying to make me a Christian right away.'

²⁹ `Right away or later,' said Paul. `I wish that all who hear me today might be what I am. That is, what I am without these chains.'

³⁰ Then king Agrippa stood up. Festus and Bernice and those who were sitting there with them stood up also.

³¹ They left the room and talked the matter over. They said, `This man is not doing anything wrong for which he ought to be in prison or die.'

³² Agrippa said to Festus, `We could let this man go free if he had not asked to go to Caesar.'

27 It was planned that we would go by boat to Italy. An officer named Julius was put in charge of Paul and some other prisoners. Julius was an army captain in the Augustan group.

² We got on a boat which was from the city of Adramyttium. This boat was going along the coast of Asia Minor. And so we went out to sea. A man named Aristarchus from the city of Thessalonica in Macedonia came with us also.

³ The next day we stopped at the city of Sidon. Julius was kind to Paul. He allowed him to go to see his friends so they could care for him.

⁴ Then we started out to sea again. We went near the island of Cyprus, because the wind was blowing against us.

⁵ We crossed the sea by the countries of Cilicia and Pamphylia. Then we reached the city of Myra in Lycia.

⁶ There the officer found a boat from the city of Alexandria going to the country of Italy. So he put us on that boat.

⁷ We went slowly for many days. And after much trouble, we reached the city of Cnidus. The wind was blowing hard against us. We could not go on. So we went around the south side of the island of Crete, past Cape Salmone.

⁸ We had trouble going along near the coast, but at last we came to a place called Fair Havens. This was near the town of Lasea.

⁴⁰ When Jesus came back, the people were very glad to see him. They were all waiting for him.

⁴¹ A man named Jairus came to him. He was a ruler in the meeting house. He bowed down in front of Jesus and begged him to come to his house.

⁴² He had only one daughter She was about twelve years old. And she was dying. Many people went with Jesus and pushed against him.

⁴³ A woman among them had a sickness for twelve years. She was bleeding all the time. She had given all her money to the doctors, but no one had been able to heal her.

⁴⁴ She came behind Jesus and touched his clothes. The bleeding stopped right away.

⁴⁵ Jesus said, `Who touched me?' Everyone said, `Not I!' Peter said, `Master, the people are all around you and push you.'

⁴⁶ But Jesus said, `Someone touched me. I know that power to heal went out from me.'

⁴⁷ The woman saw that he knew about her. So she came trembling and bowed down in front of him. She told him in front of all the people why she had touched him. She told him that she had been healed right away.

⁴⁸ Jesus said to her, `Daughter, you were healed because you believed. Go and do not be troubled.'

⁴⁹ While he was still talking, a man came from the ruler's house. He said, `Your daughter has died. Do not trouble the Teacher any more.'

⁵⁰ Jesus heard it. He said, `Do not fear. Only believe and she will be healed.'

⁵¹ When Jesus came to the house, he did not let the people go in with him. The only people he let go in were Peter, John and James, and the girl's father and mother.

⁵² All the people were crying and making a lot of noise because she had died. But he said, `Do not cry. She is not dead, but sleeping.'

⁵³ They laughed at him because they knew she was dead.

⁵⁴ He took her hand and called out, `Little girl, get up.'

⁵⁵ Her life came back and she got up right away. He told them to give her something to eat.

⁵⁶ Her parents were very much surprised. Jesus said, `Do not tell anyone what has happened.'