Acts 17

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1 After passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews.
2 Paul, as was his custom, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
3 explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead and that this Jesus, whom I proclaim to you.
4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas, of the Greeks, thought upon [God], a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
5 But the Jews, he was jealous, and taking some wicked people gathered crowd and the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, they sought to bring them to the people.
6 Not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These that turned the world upside down are come hither,
7 and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus.
8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard it.
9 But [these], having received a certificate from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

10 Brethren immediately during the night sent Paul and Silas to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
eleven These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12 And many of them believed, and of honorable women which were Greeks, and of men not a few.
13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that Paul preached in Berea the word of God, they came there too, agitating the multitudes.
14 Then the brethren immediately sent Paul as far as to the sea; but Silas and Timothy stayed there.
15 Conducted Paul brought him to Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timothy that they come to him, they departed.

16 Waiting for them in Athens, Paul was troubled in spirit when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with that thought upon [God], and in the market daily from occurring.
18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him; And some said, What will this babbler say ', and other `he seems to be advocating foreign gods?' because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
19 And he took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying: May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou?
20 For something strange you puts into our ears. Therefore we want to know what it is?
21 Now all the Athenians and the inhabitants [have] no foreigners in nothing else spent their time to talk or listen to any thing new.

22 And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Men of Athens! around I see that you are very religious.
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar on which `the unknown God 'is written. This something that you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
24 The God who made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made
25 Neither is worshiped with men's hands, [as if] having in any thing, seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things.
26 Of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation;
27 that they should seek God, if they find him, and will not feel you, though He is not far from each one of us:
28 For in him we live and move and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, `We are his offspring. '
29 So we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
thirty And the times of ignorance, God now commands all men everywhere to repent,
31 Because he hath appointed a day in which He will judge the world, by a man has given proof to all by raising Him from the dead.

32 Upon hearing about the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, and others said it will hear you at another time.
33 So Paul departed from among them.
34 Certain men adhering to him believed; among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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