Acts:17

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bbe @Acts:17:1 @Now when they had gone through Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to Thessalonica , where there was a Synagogue of the Jews : bbe @Acts:17:2 @And Paul , as he generally did , went in to them , and on three Sabbath days had discussions with them from the holy Writings , bbe @Acts:17:3 @Saying to them clearly and openly that Christ had to be put to death and come back to life again ; and that this Jesus , whom , he said , I am preaching to you , is the Christ . bbe @Acts:17:4 @And some of them had faith , and were joined to Paul and Silas ; and a number of the God-fearing Greeks , and some of the chief women . bbe @Acts:17:5 @But the Jews , being moved with envy , took with them certain low persons from among the common people , and getting together a great number of people , made an outcry in the town , attacking the house of Jason with the purpose of taking them out to the people . bbe @Acts:17:6 @And when they were not able to get them , they took Jason and some of the brothers by force before the rulers of the town , crying , These men , who have made trouble all over the world have now come here ; bbe @Acts:17:7 @Whom Jason has taken into his house : and they are acting against the orders of Caesar , saying that there is another king , Jesus . bbe @Acts:17:8 @And hearing these things the people and the rulers of the town were troubled . bbe @Acts:17:9 @And having made Jason and the others give an undertaking to keep the peace , they let them go . bbe @Acts:17:10 @And the brothers straight away sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea : and they , when they came there , went to the Synagogue of the Jews . bbe @Acts:17:11 @Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica , for they gave serious attention to the word , searching in the holy Writings every day , to see if these things were so . bbe @Acts:17:12 @And a number of them had faith , and no small number of the Greek women of high position and of the men . bbe @Acts:17:13 @But when the Jews of Thessalonica had news that Paul was preaching the word at Beroea , they came there , troubling the people and working them up . bbe @Acts:17:14 @So the brothers sent Paul straight away to the sea : but Silas and Timothy kept there still . bbe @Acts:17:15 @But those who went with Paul took him as far as Athens , and then went away , with orders from him to Silas and Timothy to come to him quickly . bbe @Acts:17:16 @Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens , his spirit was troubled , for he saw all the town full of images of the gods . bbe @Acts:17:17 @So he had discussions in the Synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles , and every day in the market-place with those who were there . bbe @Acts:17:18 @And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics , had a meeting with him . And some said , What is this talker of foolish words saying ? And others , He seems to be a preacher of strange gods : because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead . bbe @Acts:17:19 @And they took him to Mars ' Hill , saying , Will you make clear to us what is this new teaching of yours ? bbe @Acts:17:20 @For you seem to us to say strange things , and we have a desire to get the sense of them . bbe @Acts:17:21 @(Now all the Athenians and the men from other lands who come there were giving all their time to talking or hearing of anything new .) bbe @Acts:17:22 @And Paul got to his feet on Mars ' Hill and said , O men of Athens , I see that you are overmuch given to fear of the gods . bbe @Acts:17:23 @For when I came by , I was looking at the things to which you give worship , and I saw an altar with this writing on it , TO THE GOD OF WHOM THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE bbe @Acts:17:24 @The God who made the earth and everything in it , he , being Lord of heaven and earth , is not housed in buildings made with hands ; bbe @Acts:17:25 @And he is not dependent on the work of men 's hands , as if he had need of anything , for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things ; bbe @Acts:17:26 @And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth , ordering their times and the limits of their lands , bbe @Acts:17:27 @So that they might make search for God , in order , if possible , to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him , though he is not far from every one of us : bbe @Acts:17:28 @For in him we have life and motion and existence ; as certain of your verse writers have said , For we are his offspring . bbe @Acts:17:29 @If then we are the offspring of God , it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone , formed by the art or design of man . bbe @Acts:17:30 @Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God ; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart : bbe @Acts:17:31 @Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work ; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead . bbe @Acts:17:32 @Now on hearing about the coming back from death , some of them made sport of it , but others said , Let us go more fully into this another time . bbe @Acts:17:33 @And so Paul went away from among them . bbe @Acts:17:34 @But some men gave him their support : among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite , and a woman named Damaris , and others with them .

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