²⁹ Paul said, “I pray to God that not only you, but all who hear me this day, might become not only almost, but thoroughly and altogether, what I am, except for these chains.”

³⁰ When he had said this, the king rose, as well as the governor and Bernice and those who sat with them. ³¹ When they had gone aside, they said to one another, “This man is doing nothing deserving death or imprisonment.”