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While they were searching for Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly, they attacked Jason’s house. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some believers<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31789d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> before the city authorities,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31789e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> shouting, “These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>and Jason has entertained them as guests. They are all acting contrary to the decrees of the emperor, saying that there is another king named Jesus.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The people and the city officials were disturbed when they heard this, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>and after they had taken bail from Jason and the others, they let them go.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Paul and Silas in Beroea</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>That very night the believers<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31793f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> sent Paul and Silas off to Beroea; and when they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>These Jews were more receptive than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message very eagerly and examined the scriptures every day to see whether these things were so. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Many of them therefore believed, including not a few Greek women and men of high standing. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Beroea as well, they came there too, to stir up and incite the crowds. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Then the believers<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31797g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> immediately sent Paul away to the coast, but Silas and Timothy remained behind. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and after receiving instructions to have Silas and Timothy join him as soon as possible, they left him.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Paul in Athens</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed to see that the city was full of idols. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>So he argued in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and also in the marketplace<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31800h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> every day with those who happened to be there. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Also some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities.” (This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.) </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>So they took him and brought him to the Areopagus and asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>It sounds rather strange to us, so we would like to know what it means.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something new.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>From one ancestor<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31809i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>so that they would search for God<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31810j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote j">j</a>]</span> and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">‘For we too are his offspring.’</span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some scoffed; but others said, “We will hear you again about this.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>At that point Paul left them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>But some of them joined him and became believers, including Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 17:1">Acts 17:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>they</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 17:3">Acts 17:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>the Christ</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 17:3">Acts 17:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>the Christ</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 17:6">Acts 17:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>brothers</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 17:6">Acts 17:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>politarchs</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 17:10">Acts 17:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>brothers</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 17:14">Acts 17:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>brothers</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 17:17">Acts 17:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>civic center</i>; Gk <i>agora</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 17:26">Acts 17:26</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>From one</i>; other ancient authorities read <i>From one blood</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Acts 17:27">Acts 17:27</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>the Lord</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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