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AC-17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and
Apollonia,
they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
AC-17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and
three
sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
AC-17:3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have
suffered,
and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach
unto you, is Christ.
AC-17:4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and
Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the
chief
women not a few.
AC-17:5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took
unto
them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a
company,
and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of
Jason,
and sought to bring them out to the people.
AC-17:6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and
certain
brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have
turned
the world upside down are come hither also;
AC-17:7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to
the
decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, [one]
Jesus.
AC-17:8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city,
when they heard these things.
AC-17:9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the
other, they let them go.
AC-17:10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas
by
night unto Berea: who coming [thither] went into the synagogue of
the Jews.
AC-17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in
that
they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched
the
scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
AC-17:12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable
women
which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
AC-17:13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that
the
word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither
also,
and stirred up the people.
AC-17:14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go
as
it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
AC-17:15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens:
and
receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to
him
with all speed, they departed.
AC-17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit
was
stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
AC-17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews,
and
with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that
met
with him.
AC-17:18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the
Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler
say?
other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods:
because
he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
AC-17:19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus,
saying,
May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, [is]?
AC-17:20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears:
we
would know therefore what these things mean.
AC-17:21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there
spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear
some new thing.)
AC-17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said,
[Ye]
men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too
superstitious.
AC-17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I
found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom
therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. AC-17:24
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is
Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with
hands;
AC-17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he
needed
any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all
things;
AC-17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to
dwell
on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times
before
appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
AC-17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might
feel
after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of
us:
AC-17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as
certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his
offspring.
AC-17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought
not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or
stone, graven by art and man's device.
AC-17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now
commandeth all men every where to repent:
AC-17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will
judge the world in righteousness by [that] man whom he hath
ordained; [whereof] he hath given assurance unto all [men], in
that
he hath raised him from the dead.
AC-17:32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead,
some
mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this
[matter].
AC-17:33 So Paul departed from among them.
AC-17:34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among
the which [was] Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named
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