| Acts 17:1 |
And they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. |
| Acts 17:2 |
And according to his custom Paul went in to them, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, |
| Acts 17:3 |
Opening and setting before [them] that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead, and [saying,] This is the Christ, the Jesus whom I announce to you. |
| Acts 17:4 |
And some of them were persuaded and were joined to Paul and Silas, as well as a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and of the chief women not a few. |
| Acts 17:5 |
But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some evil men from among the loafers in the marketplace, gathered a crowd and set the city in an uproar; and coming upon the house of Jason, they sought to bring them to the populace. |
| Acts 17:6 |
But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city officials, shouting, These men who have upset the world have come here also, |
| Acts 17:7 |
Whom Jason has welcomed; and these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus. |
| Acts 17:8 |
And they stirred up the crowd and the city officials, who listened to these things. |
| Acts 17:9 |
And when they had taken bail from Jason and the rest, they released them. |
| Acts 17:10 |
And the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away during the night to Berea, who, when they arrived, went off into the synagogue of the Jews. |
| Acts 17:11 |
Now these people were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily [to see] whether these things were so. |
| Acts 17:12 |
Therefore many of them believed, and [there were] not a few Greek women of high standing and men. |
| Acts 17:13 |
But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been announced by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds. |
| Acts 17:14 |
And immediately the brothers then sent Paul off, to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there. |
| Acts 17:15 |
And those who conducted Paul brought [him] as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as quickly as possible, they went off. |
| Acts 17:16 |
And while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld that the city was full of idols. |
| Acts 17:17 |
He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be [there.] |
| Acts 17:18 |
And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also confronted him. And some said, What would this babbler wish to say? And others, He seems to be an announcer of foreign deities--because he was announcing Jesus and the resurrection as the gospel. |
| Acts 17:19 |
And they took hold of him and led [him] to the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is which is being spoken by you? |
| Acts 17:20 |
For you are bringing strange things to our ears. We intend to know therefore what these things mean. |
| Acts 17:21 |
(Now all the Athenians and the foreigners sojourning [there] spent their time on nothing other than telling or hearing something new.) |
| Acts 17:22 |
And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, Men of Athens, I observe that in every way you very much revere your deities. |
| Acts 17:23 |
For while I was passing through and carefully observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore you worship without knowing, this I announce to you. |
| Acts 17:24 |
The God who made the world and all things in it, this One, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; |
| Acts 17:25 |
Neither is He served by human hands as though He needed anything in addition, since He Himself gives to all life and breath and all things. |
| Acts 17:26 |
And He made from one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, determining beforehand [their] appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwelling, |
| Acts 17:27 |
That they might seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find [Him,] even though He is not far from each one of us; |
| Acts 17:28 |
For in Him we live and move and are, as even some poets among you have said, For we are also His race. |
| Acts 17:29 |
Being then the race of God, we ought not to suppose that what is divine is like gold or silver or stone, [like] an engraving of art and thought of man. |
| Acts 17:30 |
Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now charges all men everywhere to repent, |
| Acts 17:31 |
Because He has set a day in which He is to judge the world in righteousness by the man whom He has designated, having furnished proof to all by raising Him from the dead. |
| Acts 17:32 |
And when they heard of a resurrection of the dead, some scoffed; and others said, We will hear you yet again concerning this. |
| Acts 17:33 |
Thus Paul went out from their midst. |
| Acts 17:34 |
But some men joined him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them. |