14. Where, finding brethren, we were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went to Rome.
15. And from thence, when the brethren had heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and the Three Taverns: whom when Paul saw, he gave thanks to God, and took courage.
16. And when we were come to Rome, Paul was suffered to dwell by himself, with a soldier that kept him.
17. And after the third day, he called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I, having done nothing against the people, or the custom of our fathers, was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;
18. Who, when they had examined me, would have released me, for that there was no cause of death in me;
19. But the Jews contradicting it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had any thing to accuse my nation of.
20. For this cause therefore I desired to see you, and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.