The believers there had heard about us and came out as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us; when Paul saw them he thanked God and took courage.
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13and from there we worked our way round and reached Rhegium. A day later a south wind came up and on the second day we arrived at Puteoli. 14There we found brothers and sisters who invited us to stay a week with them. And so we came to Rome. 15The believers there had heard about us and came out as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us; when Paul saw them he thanked God and took courage. 16When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself, with the soldier who guarded him. 17Three days later he called together the leading men of the Jews, and when they had gathered he said to them: “Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was handed over as a prisoner in Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
