028:021 "For our part," they replied, "we have not received any letters
from Judaea about you, nor have any of our countrymen come
here and reported or stated anything to your disadvantage.
028:022 But we should be glad to hear from you what it is that
you believe; for as for this sect all we know is that it
is everywhere spoken against."
028:023 So they arranged a day with him and came to him in considerable
numbers at the house of the friends who were entertaining him.
And then, with solemn earnestness, he explained to them
the subject of the Kingdom of God, endeavouring from morning
till evening to convince them about Jesus, both from the Law
of Moses and from the Prophets.
028:024 Some were convinced; others refused to believe.
028:025 Unable to agree among themselves, they at last left him,
but not before Paul had spoken a parting word to them, saying,
"Right well did the Holy Spirit say to your forefathers
through the Prophet Isaiah:
028:026 "`Go to this people and tell them, you will hear and hear,
and by no means understand; and will look and look,
and by no means see.
028:027 For this people's mind has grown callous, their hearing has
become dull, and their eyes they have closed; to prevent
their ever seeing with their eyes, or hearing with their ears,
or understanding with their minds, and turning back,
so that I might cure them.'
028:028 "Be fully assured, therefore, that this salvation--God's salvation--
has now been sent to the Gentiles, and that they, at any rate,
will give heed."
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028:030 After this Paul lived for fully two years in a hired house