Acts 17




acv@Acts:17:1 @ Now after passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

acv@Acts:17:2 @ And according to Paul's custom, he went in to them, and for three Sabbaths he discoursed with them from the Scriptures,

acv@Acts:17:3 @ explaining and pointing out that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead, and, This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.

acv@Acts:17:4 @ And some of them were persuaded, and joined with Paul and Silas, and of the devout Greeks a great quantity, and of the prominent women not a few.

acv@Acts:17:5 @ But the disobedient Jews having taken along certain evil men of the marketplaces, and having gathered a mob, were rioting the city. And having stood by the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the populace.

acv@Acts:17:6 @ And not having found them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the city rulers, shouting, The men who have agitated the world, these are present here also,

acv@Acts:17:7 @ whom Jason has received. And all these men are acting against the decrees of Caesar, asserting another man to be king, Jesus.

acv@Acts:17:8 @ And they disturbed the multitude and the city rulers when they heard these things.

acv@Acts:17:9 @ And after taking bond from Jason and the other men, they released them.

acv@Acts:17:10 @ And the brothers straightaway sent both Paul and Silas away through the night to Berea, who, when they arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

acv@Acts:17:11 @ But these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, examining the Scriptures daily, if it has these things this way.

acv@Acts:17:12 @ Indeed therefore many of them believed, also of the prominent Greek women, and of men, not a few.

acv@Acts:17:13 @ But when the Jews of Thessalonica also learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there also, agitating the crowds.

acv@Acts:17:14 @ But then straightaway the brothers sent Paul away to go as far as to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy remained there.

acv@Acts:17:15 @ And those who brought Paul led him as far as Athens. And after taking a command for Silas and Timothy, that they should come to him quickly, they departed.

acv@Acts:17:16 @ But while Paul waited for them in Athens, his spirit was aroused within him, seeing the city being completely idolatrous.

acv@Acts:17:17 @ Indeed therefore he was discoursing in the synagogue with the Jews, and with those who worship, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened by.

acv@Acts:17:18 @ And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, Whatever does this babbler want to say? But others, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities, because he brought the good-news--Jesus and t

acv@Acts:17:19 @ And having taken him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, Can we understand what this new doctrine is, being spoken by thee?

acv@Acts:17:20 @ For thou bring some surprising things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know whatever these things aim to be.

acv@Acts:17:21 @ Now all the Athenians, and the foreigners who dwell alien there, were at leisure in nothing else, than to tell or to hear something new.

acv@Acts:17:22 @ And having stood in the middle of the Areopagus, Paul said, Athenian men, I perceive you as deity-fearing in all things.

acv@Acts:17:23 @ For, passing through and examining your religious objects, I also found an altar on which had been engraved, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye worship unknowingly, him I proclaim to you.

acv@Acts:17:24 @ The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands,

acv@Acts:17:25 @ nor is he served by the hands of men, as needing anything, since he himself gives to all life, and breath, with all things.

acv@Acts:17:26 @ And he made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined prescribed times, and the limits of their occupancy,

acv@Acts:17:27 @ to search for the Lord, if indeed perhaps they might grope for him and find him, although being not far from each one of us.

acv@Acts:17:28 @ For in him we live, and move, and exist, as also some of the performers from you have said, For of him we are also offspring.

acv@Acts:17:29 @ Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not think the Divine to be like gold, or silver, or stone handiwork of the skill and thought of man.

acv@Acts:17:30 @ Indeed therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands for all men everywhere to repent.

acv@Acts:17:31 @ Because he appointed a day during which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he appointed, having provided assurance to all men because he raised him from the dead.

acv@Acts:17:32 @ But when they heard the resurrection of the dead, of course they mocked, but others said, We will hear thee again about this.

acv@Acts:17:33 @ And so Paul departed from among them.

acv@Acts:17:34 @ But some men, having joined with him, believed, among whom was also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.


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