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having also assailed the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring [them] to the populace, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and having not found them, they drew Jason and certain brothers to the city rulers, calling aloud, “These, having put the world in commotion, are also present here, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>whom Jason has received; and all these do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king—Jesus.” <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and having taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the brothers immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went into the synagogue of the Jews; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Writings every day [to see] whether those things were so; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>therefore, many of them, indeed, believed, and not a few of the honorable Greek women and men. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came there also, agitating the multitudes; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and then immediately the brothers sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas and Timotheus were remaining there. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And those conducting Paul, brought him to Athens, and having received a command to Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come to him, they departed;<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshiping persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met with him. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, “What would this seed picker wish to say?” And others, “He seems to be an announcer of strange demons”; because he proclaimed to them Jesus and the resurrection as good news, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>having also taken him, they brought [him] to the Areopagus, saying, “Are we able to know what this new teaching [is] that is spoken by you, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>for you bring certain strange things to our ears? We resolve, then, to know what these things would wish to be”; <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, “Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious; <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I also found an altar on which had been inscribed: To God—unknown; whom, therefore—not knowing—you worship, this One I announce to you. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>God, who made the world, and all things in it, this One, being Lord of Heaven and of earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands, <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>neither is He served by the hands of men—needing anything, He giving life to all, and breath, and all things; <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He also made every nation of man of one blood, to dwell on all the face of the earth—having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings— <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>to seek the LORD, if perhaps they felt after Him and found, though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us, <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>for in Him we live, and move, and are; as certain of your poets have also said: For we are also His offspring. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, [an] engraving of art and imagination of man; <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>therefore indeed God, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commands all men everywhere to convert, <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>because He set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a Man whom He ordained, having given assurance to all, having raised Him out of the dead.”<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And having heard of a resurrection of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, “We will hear you again concerning this”; <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>and so Paul went forth from the midst of them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>and certain men having cleaved to him, believed, among whom [is] also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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