The locals (Malta) treat the people from the shipwreck well. They think Paul is a god when he fails to be killed by a snake. Nothing will keep Paul for carrying out God's will that Paul testify to God in Rome. Paul heals a large number of the islanders.
Paul reaches Rome and is placed under house arrest. Paul speaks to the local Jews who have no knowledge of what has transpired in Jerusalem. Paul learns, however, that the sect (Christians) are not being spoken well of. Paul preaches and converts some of them to the Way. To those who don't, he reminds them of what God said in their own scriptures (Isaiah ;) that some people will have closed hearts that God will not get into. Paul ends with the fact that Gentiles WILL listen. Paul continues in Rome to tell about the Good News of Jesus.
What is not in Acts, is the fact that Paul will be executed for his faith in the early 60's A.D. by another emperor when Christians are even less thought of.
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