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Now
when they had traveled through
Amphipolis
and Apollonia,
they came
to Thessalonica,
where
there was a synagogue
of the Jews.
2
And according
to Paul's
custom,
he went
to them, and for three
Sabbaths
reasoned
with them from the Scriptures,
3
explaining
and giving evidence
that the Christ
had
to suffer
and rise again
from the dead,
and saying, "This
Jesus
whom
I am proclaiming
to you is the Christ."
4
And some
of them were persuaded
and joined
Paul
and Silas,
along
with a large
number
of the God-fearing
Greeks
and a
number
of the leading
women.
5
But the Jews,
becoming jealous
and taking along
some
wicked
men
from the market place,
formed a mob
and set
the city
in an uproar;
and attacking
the house
of Jason,
they were seeking
to bring
them out to the people.
6
When they did not find
them, they began dragging
Jason
and some
brethren
before
the city authorities,
shouting,
"These men
who have upset
the world
have come
here
also;
7
and Jason
has welcomed
them, and they all
act
contrary
to the decrees
of Caesar,
saying
that there is another
king,
Jesus."
8
They stirred
up the crowd
and the city authorities
who heard
these things.
9
And when they had received
a pledge
from Jason
and the others,
they released
them.
10
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-minded
than those
in Thessalonica,
for they received
the word
with great
eagerness,
examining
the Scriptures
daily
to see whether
these
things
were so.
12
Therefore
many
of them believed,
along
with a number
of prominent
Greek
women
and men.
13
But when
the Jews
of Thessalonica
found
out that the word
of God
had been proclaimed
by Paul
in Berea
also,
they came
there as well,
agitating
and stirring
up the crowds.
14
Then
immediately
the brethren
sent
Paul
out to go
as far
as the sea;
and Silas
and Timothy
remained
there.
15
Now
those
who escorted
Paul
brought
him as far
as Athens;
and receiving
a command
for Silas
and Timothy
to come
to him as soon
as possible,
they left.
16
Now
while Paul
was waiting
for them at Athens,
his spirit
was being provoked
within
him as he was observing
the city
full of idols.
17
So
he was reasoning
in the synagogue
with the Jews
and the God-fearing
Gentiles, and in the market place
every
day
with those
who happened to be present.
18
And also
some
of the Epicurean
and Stoic
philosophers
were conversing
with him. Some
were saying,
"What
would this
idle babbler
wish
to say?"
Others,
"He seems
to be a proclaimer
of strange
deities,"--
because
he was preaching
Jesus
and the resurrection.
19
And they took
him and brought
him to the Areopagus,
saying,
"May
we know
what
this
new
teaching
is which you are proclaiming?
20
"For you are bringing
so
me
strange things
to our ears;
so
we want
to know
what
these things
mean."
21
(Now
all
the Athenians
and the strangers
visiting
there used to spend their time
in nothing
other
than
telling
or
hearing
something
new.)
22
So
Paul
stood
in the midst
of the Areopagus
and said,
"Men
of Athens,
I observe
that you are very religious
in all respects.
23
"For while I was passing through
and examining
the objects of your worship,
I also
found
an altar
with
this
inscription,
'TO AN UNKNOWN
GOD.'
Therefore
what
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
nor
is He served
by human
hands,
as though He needed
anything,
since He Himself
gives
to all
people life
and breath
and all things;
26
and He made
from one
man every
nation
of mankind
to live
on all
the face
of the earth,
having determined
their appointed
times
and the boundaries
of their habitation,
27
that they would seek
God,
if
perhaps
they might grope
for Him and find
Him, though
He is not far
from each
one
of us;
28
for in Him we live
and move
and exist,
as even
some
of your own poets
have said,
'For we also
are His children.'
29
"Being
then
the children
of God,
we ought
not to think
that the Divine Nature
is like
gold
or
silver
or
stone,
an image f
or
med
by the art
and thought
of man.
30
"Therefore
having overlooked
the times
of ignorance,
God
is now
declaring
to men
that all
people everywhere
should repent,
31
because
He has fixed
a day
in which
He will
judge
the world
in righteousness
through
a Man
whom
He has appointed,
having furnished
proof
to all men
by raising
Him from the dead."
32
Now
when they heard
of the resurrection
of the dead,
some
began to sneer,
but others
said,
"We shall hear
you again
concerning
this."
33
So
Paul
went
out of their midst.
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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