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* Having passed through and the Amphipolis and Apollonia , they came into Thessalonica , where was the synagogue of the Jews . * According to and the custom the Paul went in to them , and for sabbaths three reasoned with them from the writings . * Opening and setting forth , that the Anointed it was necessary to have suffered and to have been raised out of dead ones , and that this is the Anointed Jesus , whom I announce to you . * And some of them were convinced , and joined themselves to the Paul and to the Silas , of the and pious Greeks a great number , women and of the chief not a few . * Having taken to themselves and the Jews of the market –loungers some men of evil , and having gathered a crowd , they disturbed the city ; having assaulted and the house of Jason , they sought them to led out into the people ; * not having found and them , they dragged the Jason and some brethren to the city –rulers , crying : That they the habitable having disturbed , these also here are present ; * whom has received Jason ; and these all against the decrees of Caesar do , a king saying another to be , Jesus . * Troubled and the crowd and the city –rulers having heard these things . * And having taken the security from the Jason and the rest , they let go them . * The and brethren immediately by the night sent away the both Paul and the Silas into Berea ; who having arrived , into the synagogue of the Jews went . * These and were more candid of those in Thessalonica , who received the word with all promptness , that every day closely scrutinizing the writings , if was these things thus . * Many indeed therefore out of them believed , and of the Greek women of the honorable and men not a few . * When but knew these from Thessalonica Jews , that also in the Berea was preached by the Paul the word of the God , they came also there stirring up the crowds . * Immediately and then the Paul sent out the brethren to go as to the sea ; remained and the , both Silas and the Timothy there . * They but conducting the Paul led him to Athens ; and having received a charge to the Silas and Timothy , that as soon as possible they should come to him , they departed . * In and the Athens waiting them of the Paul , was stirred up the spirit of him in him , beholding full of idols being the city . * He reasoned indeed then in the synagogue with the Jews and with those being pious , and in the market during every day with those happening to meet . * Some but of the Epicureans and of the Stoics philosophers encountered him ; and some said : What may intend the seed –picker this to say ? They said : Of strange demons he seems a proclaimer to be ; because the Jesus and the resurrection to them he announced glad tidings . * Having taken hold and of him to the Mars hill they led , saying : Are we able to know , what the new this that by thee being spoken teaching ? * Strange things for certain thou bringest to the ears of us . We desire therefore to know , what may intend these things to be . * Athenians and all and the sojourning strangers , in nothing else spend leisure , than to tell something and to hear newer . * Having stood up and the Paul in midst of the Mars hill , said : Men Athenians , in all things as it were worshippers of demons you I perceive ; * passing through for and beholding the objects of worship of you , I found also an altar , in which had been written : To an unknown God . Whom therefore not knowing you worship , this I announce to you . * The God that having made the world and all the things in it , this of heaven and earth Lord being not in hand made temples dwells , * nor by hands of men is served , wanting anything , he giving to all life and breath and the things all ; * made and out of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth , having fixed having been appointed seasons and the fixed limits of the habitation of them ; * to seek the God , if indeed they might feel him and might find , and indeed not far from one each of us being . * In him for we live and are moved and we are ; as also some of those with you poets have said : Of the for also offspring we are . * Offspring therefore being of the God , not we are bound to suppose , gold or silver or stone , a sculpture of art and device of man , the Deity to be like . * The indeed therefore times of the ignorance overlooking the God , now he commands to the men all in all places to reform ; * because he established a day , in which he is about to judge the habitable in righteousness , by a man whom he appointed , a guarantee having furnished to all , having raised him out of dead ones . * Having heard and a resurrection of dead ones , these indeed mocked ; those but said : We will hear thee again about this . * And thus the Paul went out from midst of them . * Some but men having associated with him , believed ; among whom also Dionysius the Areopagite , and a woman by name Damaris , and others with them .

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