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Here there was a synagogue of the Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Paul—following his usual custom—betook himself to it, and for three successive Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>which he clearly explained, pointing out that it had been necessary for the Christ to suffer and rise again from the dead, and insisting, "The Jesus whom I am announcing to you is the Christ." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Some of the people were won over, and attached themselves to Paul and Silas, including many God-fearing Greeks and not a few gentlewomen of high rank.</p> <p class="hdg">Jason Seized</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But the jealousy of the Jews was aroused, and, calling to their aid some ill-conditioned and idle fellows, they got together a riotous mob and filled the city with uproar. They then attacked the house of Jason and searched for Paul and Silas, to bring them out before the assembly of people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But, failing to find them, they dragged Jason and some of the other brethren before the magistrates of the city, loudly accusing them. "These men," they said, "who have raised a tumult throughout the Empire, have come here also. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jason has received them into his house; and they all set Caesar's authority at defiance, declaring that there is another Emperor— one called Jesus." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Great was the excitement among the crowd, and among the magistrates of the city, when they heard these charges. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They required Jason and the rest to find substantial bail, and after that they let them go.</p> <p class="hdg">Paul and Silas at Berea</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The brethren at once sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea, and they, on their arrival, went to the synagogue of the Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The Jews at Beroea were of a nobler disposition than those in Thessalonica, for they very readily received the Message, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether it was as Paul stated. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>As the result many of them became believers, and so did not a few of the Greeks—gentlewomen of good position, and men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>As soon, however, as the Jews of Thessalonica learnt that God's Message had been proclaimed by Paul at Beroea, they came there also, and incited the mob to a riot. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the brethren promptly sent Paul down to the sea-coast, but Silas and Timothy remained behind. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Those who were caring for Paul's safety went with him as far as Athens, and then left him, taking a message from him to Silas and Timothy, asking them to join him as speedily as possible.</p> <p class="hdg">Paul at Athens</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred within him when he noticed that the city was full of idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So he had discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and the other worshippers, and in the market place, day after day, with those whom he happened to meet. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some of them asked, "What has this beggarly babbler to say?" "His business," said others, "seems to be to cry up some foreign gods." This was because he had been telling the Good News of Jesus and the Resurrection. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then they took him and brought him up to the Areopagus, asking him, "May we be told what this new teaching of yours is? <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the things you are saying sound strange to us. We should therefore like to be told exactly what they mean." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span></p> <p class="hdg">Paul Before the Areopagus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So Paul, taking his stand in the centre of the Areopagus, spoke as follows: "Men of Athens, I perceive that you are in every respect remarkably religious. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For as I passed along and observed the things you worship, I found also an altar bearing the inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' "The Being, therefore, whom you, without knowing Him, revere, Him I now proclaim to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>GOD who made the universe and everything in it—He, being Lord of Heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries built by men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Nor is He ministered to by human hands, as though He needed anything—but He Himself gives to all men life and breath and all things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He caused to spring from one forefather people of every race, for them to live on the whole surface of the earth, and marked out for them an appointed span of life and the boundaries of their homes; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>that they might seek God, if perhaps they could grope for Him and find Him. Yes, though He is not far from any one of us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For it is in closest union with Him that we live and move and have our being; as in fact some of the poets in repute among yourselves have said, 'For we are also His offspring.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Since then we are God's offspring, we ought not to imagine that His nature resembles gold or silver or marble, or anything sculptured by the art and inventive faculty of man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>seeing that He has appointed a day on which, before long, He will judge the world in righteousness, through the instrumentality of a man whom He has pre-destined to this work, and has made the fact certain to every one by raising Him from the dead."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>When they heard Paul speak of a resurrection of dead men, some began to scoff. But others said, "We will hear you again on that subject." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So Paul went away from them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>A few, however, attached themselves to him and believed, among them being Dionysius a member of the Council, a gentlewoman named Damaris, and some others.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Weymouth New testament<br /><br /><a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible<br />© 2012, Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../acts/16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Acts 16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Acts 16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../acts/18.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Acts 18"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Acts 18" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/acts/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>