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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 YLT</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="../">YLT</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">Young's Literal Translation</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 was the synagogue of the Jews, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>opening and alleging, ‘That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ — Jesus whom I proclaim to you.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also 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>And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring [them] to the populace, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud — ‘These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present, <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 Caesar, saying another to be king — Jesus.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and having taking security from Jason and the rest, 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, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>many, indeed, therefore, of them did believe, and of the honourable Greek women and men not a few. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came thither also, agitating the multitudes; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And those conducting Paul, brought him unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come unto him, 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>and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, ‘What would this seed picker wish to say?’ and others, ‘Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;’ because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought [him], saying, ‘Are we able to know what [is] this new teaching that is spoken by thee, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer 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>And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, ‘Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God — unknown; whom, therefore — not knowing — ye do worship, this One I announce to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>‘God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>neither by the hands of men is He served — needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth — having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings — <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, — though, indeed, 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 are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>‘Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, ‘We will hear thee again concerning this;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>and so Paul went forth from the midst of them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/17-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom [is] also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal 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="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhsh.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="320" scrolling="no" src="//biblemenus.com/adframe728bhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhpar.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>