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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 BLB</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" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BLB</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/acts/17.htm" width="100%" height="32" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Berean Literal Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Paul Preaches at Thessalonica</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And according to the custom with Paul, he went in to them and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>opening and setting forth that it behooved the Christ to have suffered and to have risen out from <i>the</i> dead, and that “this Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And some of them were obedient and joined themselves to Paul and to Silas, along with a great multitude of the worshipping Greeks, and not a few of the leading women. </p><p class="hdg">The Uproar in Thessalonica</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now the Jews having become jealous, and having taken to <i>them</i> certain wicked men of the market-loungers, and having collected a crowd, set the city in uproar. And having assailed the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring out to the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But not having found them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the city authorities, crying out, “These ones having upset the world come here also, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>whom Jason has received. And these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, proclaiming another to be king, Jesus.” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And they stirred up the crowd and the city authorities, hearing these things. <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 go them. </p><p class="hdg">The Character of the Bereans</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the brothers sent away both Paul and Silas immediately by night to Berea, who having arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now these, who were more noble than those in Thessalonica, received the word with all readiness, on every day examining the Scriptures, whether these things were so. <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 prominent Grecian women and men. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God also was proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they came there also, stirring up and agitating the crowds. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And then immediately the brothers sent away Paul to go as to the sea. And both Silas and Timothy remained there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now those escorting Paul brought <i>him</i> unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Timothy that as quickly as possible they should come to him, they departed. </p><p class="hdg">Paul in Athens</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now of Paul in Athens waiting for them, his spirit was provoked in him, seeing the city to be utterly idolatrous. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So indeed he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and those worshiping, and in the marketplace on every day with those meeting <i>him</i>. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And also some of the Epicureans and Stoics, philosophers, encountered him, and some were saying, “What may this babbler desire to say?” but others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he was proclaiming the gospel of Jesus and the resurrection. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And having taken hold of him they brought <i>him</i> to the Areopagus, saying, “Are we able to know what <i>is</i> this new teaching which is spoken by you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. We resolve therefore to know what these things wish to be.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now all <i>the</i> Athenians and the visiting strangers spent their time in nothing else than to tell something and to hear something new. </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>And Paul, having stood in <i>the</i> midst of the Areopagus, was saying, “Men, Athenians, I behold that in all things you <i>are</i> very religious. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For passing through and beholding your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which had been inscribed:</p><p class="reg"><div class="inscrip"> To an unknown God.</div></p><p class="reg"> Therefore whom you worship not knowing, Him I proclaim to you. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The God having made the world and all things that <i>are</i> in it, He being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in hand-made temples, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>nor is He served by hands of men as needing anything, Himself giving to all life and breath and everything. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And He made from one <i>man</i> every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined <i>the</i> appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>to seek God, if perhaps indeed they might palpate for Him, and might find Him. And indeed, He is not far from each one of us. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>‘For in Him we live and move and are.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fna" title="Probably a quote from the Cretan philosopher Epimenides">a</a></span> As also some of the poets among you have said, ‘For we are also <i>His</i> offspring.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fnb" title="Probably from the poem 'Phainomena' by the Cilician philosopher Aratus">b</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Therefore, being offspring of God, we ought not to consider the Divine Being to be like to gold or to silver or to stone, a graven thing of man’s craft and imagination. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So indeed God, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commands all men everywhere to repent, <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 appointed, having provided a guarantee to all, having raised Him out from <i>the</i> dead.” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Now having heard of a resurrection of <i>the</i> dead, some indeed began to mock <i>him</i>, but some said, “We will hear you concerning this again also.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Thus Paul went out from their midst. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But some men, having joined themselves to him, believed, among whom also <i>were</i> Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.<A name="fn"><br /><br /></p><A name="fna"></a><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnote">Probably a quote from the Cretan philosopher Epimenides</span><br /><A name="fnb"></a><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnote">Probably from the poem 'Phainomena' by the Cilician philosopher Aratus</span><br /><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible<br /><a href="//berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="//literalbible.com">Berean Literal Bible (BLB)</a><br />© 2016 by <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a> and <a href="//berean.bible">Berean.Bible</a><br />Used by Permission. 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