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And attacking the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the assembly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And when they did not find them, they <i>began</i> dragging Jason and some brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have upset <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the world have come here also; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>and Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And they disturbed the crowd and the city authorities who heard these things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And when they had received the bond from Jason and the others, they released them. <p class="hdg">In Berea</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>for they received the word with <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>great eagerness, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>examining the Scriptures daily <i>to see</i> whether 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 not 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 of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, shaking up and disturbing the crowds. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then immediately the brothers sent Paul out to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left. <p class="hdg">In Athens</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing <i>Gentiles</i>, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be present. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>conversing with him. Some were saying, “What would this <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>idle babbler wish to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”—because he was proclaiming the good news of 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 <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>which you are speaking? <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. So we want to know what these things mean.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>(Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something newer.) <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So Paul stood in the midst of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, 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 all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all <i>people</i> life and breath and all things; <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 mankind to inhabit all the face of the earth, having determined <i>their</i> appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope 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 and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are 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 suppose that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the craft and thought of man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now commanding men that everyone everywhere should repent, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>because He has fixed a day in which He will judge <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the world in righteousness <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>through a Man whom He determined, having furnished proof to all <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>by raising Him from the dead.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Now when they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some <i>began to</i> sneer, but others said, “We shall hear you <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>again concerning this.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>In this way, Paul went out of their midst. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>opening</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Messiah<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Messiah<br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>and a large</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>the inhabited earth</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>whom Jason has welcomed</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>who</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>who received</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>all</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>inquiring about the Scriptures</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>disputing</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> One who makes his living by picking up scraps<br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>before</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>Hill of Ares</i>; Greek god of war<br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>which is being spoken by you</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Or <i>the Council of the Areopagus</i><br><span class="fnverse">28</span> Lit <i>are</i><br><span class="fnverse">31</span> Lit <i>the inhabited earth</i><br><span class="fnverse">31</span> Or <i>in</i>; lit <i>by</i><br><span class="fnverse">31</span> Or <i>when He raised</i><br><span class="fnverse">32</span> Lit <i>also again</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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