²¹ Teaching rules of living which it is not right for us to have or to keep, being Romans.

⁸ And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.

¹² And from there to Philippi, which is the most important town of Macedonia and a Roman colony: and we were there for some days.

³ For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.

³ The more so, because you are expert in all questions to do with the Jews and their ways: so I make my request to you to give me a hearing to the end.