Acts 8:40

⁸On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

¹Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

⁴However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

³³When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

²³He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”

¹Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

⁶Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

⁶When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.

⁴⁶from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages. ⁴⁷Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.

¹Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him^[+] into every city and place where he was about to come. ²Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.