1 Festus then, having arrived in the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

1 Now Agrippa said to Paul, “You are permitted to speak for yourself.” Then Paul, stretching out his hand, began to make his defense:

1 Now when it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan cohort named Julius.

1 And when they had been brought safely through to shore, then we learned that the island was called Malta.