ACTS CH 17 The Uproar in Thessalonica 1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 And according to Pauls custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3 explaining and demonstrating that it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Yeshua whom I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah.” 4 And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a great multitude of the God-fearing Greeks and no small few of the leading women. 5 But the Jews, having become jealous, and having taken along some wicked men of the marketplace, and having gathered a mob, set the city in an uproar; and attacking the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people. 6 And when they did not find them, they were dragging Jason and some of the brethren before the city authorities, crying, “These people who have turned the world upside down have come here also, 7 whom Jason has received. And they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Yeshua.” 8 And they stirred up the crowd and the city authorites who heard these things. 9 And when they had taken a bond from Jason and the rest, they let them go. The Apostles at Berea 10 And the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea; and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 Now these 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. 12 Many of them therefore believed, and not a few also of the Greek women of high standing, and also men. 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there likewise, stirring up and troubling the crowds. 14 And then immediately the brethren sent Paul out to go as far as to the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there. 15 Now those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed. Paul at Athens 16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was beholding the city full of idols. 17 So he was reasoning in the synagogue with Jews and the God-fearers, and in the marketplace every day with those happening to be there. 18 And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some said, “What would this seed-picker say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,” because he was preaching Yeshua and the resurrection. 19 And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which is being spoken by you? 20 “For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; we want to know therefore what these things mean.” 21 (Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there spent their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.) 22 And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things. 23 “For as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. 24 “The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of Heaven and Earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one, every nation of people to live on all the face of the Earth, having determined their appointed times, and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they should seek God, if perhaps they might feel after Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ 29 “Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine is like gold or silver or stone, an image impressed by human art and imagination. 30 “The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all, having raised Him from the dead.” 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some were mocking, but others said, “We will hear you again concerning this.” 33 So Paul went out from among them. 34 But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
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