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20 For this reason therefore I asked to see you and speak with you; it is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”
21 So they said to him: “We have neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who came reported or spoken any evil about you.
22 But we desire to hear from you what you think; because as for this sect, we know that it is spoken against everywhere.”
23 So arranging a day with him, even more people came to him at his lodging, to whom he kept expounding from morning until evening: solemnly testifying about the Kingdom of God and trying to convince them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
24 Well some were persuaded by what had been said, and some kept refusing to believe.
25 So being in disagreement among themselves they started to leave, after Paul had said this one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke correctly to our fathers through Isaiah the prophet,
26 saying: ‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing, but never understand; you will keep on seeing, but never perceive”;
27 because the heart of this people has become sluggish, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; in order that they not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their heart, nor turn back, so I could heal them.’
28 Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”
29 And when he had said these things the Jews went their way, having a great dispute among themselves.
30 Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who came to see him,
31 proclaiming the Kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all boldness, without hindrance.