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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Acts 17 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > Acts 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/16.htm" title="Acts 16">◄</a> Acts 17 <a href="../acts/18.htm" title="Acts 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/acts/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Paul and Silas at Thessalonica</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying, “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming, “These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar’s decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They caused confusion among the crowd and the city officials who heard these things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>After the city officials had received bail from Jason and the others, they released them.</p> <p class="title">Paul and Silas at Berea</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Those who accompanied Paul escorted him as far as Athens, and after receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.</p> <p class="title">Paul at Athens</p><p class="bodytext"><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 greatly upset because he saw the city was full of idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, “What does this foolish babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.” (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming? <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, “We will hear you again about this.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So Paul left the Areopagus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But some people joined him and believed. 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