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and that this Jesus, whom I preach to you, is Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas: and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.</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 Jews who believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain vile fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down, have come hither also; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying, That there is another king, one Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And they troubled the people, and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And when they had taken security of Jason and of the other, 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>And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea: who coming thither, went into the synagogue of the Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore many of them believed; also of honorable women who were Greeks, and of men not a few. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul, to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timothy abode there still. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And they that conducted Paul brought him to Athens: and receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.</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>Now, while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? some others, He seemeth to be a setter-forth of strange gods: because he preached to them Jesus, and the resurrection. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And they took him, and brought him to Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is, of which thou speakest? <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears; we would know therefore what these things mean. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>(For all the Athenians and strangers who were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)</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>Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he is not far from every one of us: <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, for we are also his offspring. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone graven by art and man's device. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Because he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained: of which he hath given assurance to all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again concerning this matter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So Paul departed from among them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But certain men adhered to him, and believed: among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Webster Bible Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 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'; 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