Paul says: "The things I have experienced on my travels are good for showing off, just like many other people. God can't do anything with such stupid talk, but many people like to hear it. So now I'm talking like a chatterbox: It was difficult when I came to raging rivers with no way to cross them. I often had to spend hours looking for a crossing, they were dangerous situations. Robbers ambushed me, but I always escaped with my life, as you can see. Yes, and the hunger: I had nothing to eat for days, often I couldn't find any water either, that was terrible. I was always freezing miserably, couldn't sleep for nights on end and had no way of keeping warm. That was very hard. In the churches, I had to experience people totally disguising themselves and sneaking into our communities.
