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ACTS ยท Chapter 17
17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they
came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath
days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
17:3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must essentially have suffered,
and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto
you, is Christ.
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.
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.
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 here also;
17:7 Whom Jason has received: and these all do contrary to the decrees
of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
17:8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when
they heard these things.
17:9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they
let them go.
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.
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.
17:12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which
were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
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.
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.
17:15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving
a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus in order to come to him with all
speed, they departed.
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.
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.
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 seems to be a proclaimer of strange gods: because he preached unto them
Jesus, and the resurrection.
17:19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May
we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak, is?
17:20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears: we would know
therefore what these things mean.
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.)
17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, All of
you men of Athens, I perceive that in all things all of you are too superstitious.
17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar
with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore all of you ignorantly
worship, him declare I unto you.
17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he
is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;
17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any
thing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;
17:26 And has made of one blood all nations of men in order to dwell
on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed,
and the bounds of their habitation;
17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if lest by any means they might
feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
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.
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
are and man's device.
17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands
all men every where to repent:
17:31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the
world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has
given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
17:32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked:
and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.
17:33 So Paul departed from among them.
17:34 Nevertheless certain men clave unto him, and believed: among
the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and
others with them.
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