# Acts 28:26

> ‘Go to this people and say,
“You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”

— Acts 28:26, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Rome** (Italy · today Rome) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/rome

## When

- c. AD 60-62 (counted from the text)
- Date source: Acts 28:30 gives two full years of house arrest in Rome.

## Who ruled

- **Nero**, emperor of Rome, AD 54-68 · Source: Tacitus, Annals XIII-XVI; Suetonius, Nero
- **Herod Agrippa II**, king of Judea, AD 50-93 · Source: Josephus, Jewish War II; Antiquities XX
- **Porcius Festus**, procurator of Judea, AD 59-62 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XX.8-9

## What happened

- **Paul preaching in Rome, under arrest** (AD 60-62)
  Acts ends without saying what happens to Paul. It ends by saying that he preached freely. That is the point of the whole book.

## See also

- Isaiah 6:9-10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/6/9
- Ezekiel 12:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/12/2
- Isaiah 42:19-20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/42/19
- Matthew 13:14-15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/13/14
- Mark 4:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/mark/4/12
- Luke 24:45 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/luke/24/45
- 2 Corinthians 4:4-6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-corinthians/4/4
- John 12:38-40 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/john/12/38

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/28/26
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/28
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).