1. 15 On the chosen day, the local Jews “came in greater numbers” to Paul’s lodging place.

2. Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them!

3. 23 They now arranged for a day to meet with him, and they came in even greater numbers to him in his lodging place.

4. Verse 23 states: “They [the local Jews] now arranged for a day with him, and they came in greater numbers to him in his lodging place.

5. 17 So they went and stayed in the lodging place of Chimʹham next to Bethʹle·hem,+ intending to go on into Egypt+ 18 because of the Chal·deʹans.

6. Its long white sand strip, also completely lined with Casuarina and Tamarisk trees, is far less developed and commercialized than Ochheuteal Beach and has developed into a preferred lodging place for Western visitors.

7. 7 And she gave birth to her son, the firstborn,+ and she wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger,+ because there was no room for them in the lodging place.

8. Paul’s rented accommodations are large enough for him to receive “the principal men of the Jews” and to witness to them as well as to ‘greater numbers of others who came to him in his lodging place.’