¹⁸ So he took him to the chief captain and said, Paul, the prisoner, made a request to me to take this young man to you, for he has something to say to you.

¹ For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

¹⁴ But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison:

¹⁵ For truly I was taken by force from the land of the Hebrews; and I have done nothing for which I might be put in prison.

⁴⁰ And Jesus, answering, said, Simon, I have something to say to you. And he said, Master, say on.

²⁵ But about the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were making prayers and songs to God in the hearing of the prisoners;

¹ And when the decision had been made that we were to go by sea to Italy, they gave Paul and certain other prisoners into the care of a captain named Julius, of the Augustan band.

¹⁷ Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.

¹ I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

⁹ Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus: