Acts 17
34;
34 Some of the people became
followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the
Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others. (7)
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27 God
did this so that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find
Him, though He is not far from any one of us. (9)
28 ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the
divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.
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18 A
group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of
them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked, “He seems to
be advocating foreign gods.”
They said this
because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. (9)
19 Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the
Areopagus, where they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that
you are presenting?
20 You are bringing some strange
ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.”
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9 Then
they made Jason and the others post bond and let them go. (9)
In Berea
10 As soon as it was
night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they
went to the Jewish synagogue.
11 Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in
Thessalonica, for
they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures
every day to see if what Paul said was true.
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33 At
that, Paul left the Council.
(6)
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24 “The God who made the world and everything in it
is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human
hands. (6)
25 And He is not served by human
hands, as if He needed anything. Rather, He Himself gives everyone life and
breath and everything else.
26 From one man(Adam) He(Jesus) made all
the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He marked out their
appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
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15 Those
who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then left with instructions for
Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible. (6)
In Athens
16 While Paul was
waiting for them in Athens, he
was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.
17 So he reasoned in
the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the
marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.
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6 But
when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before
the city officials, shouting: “These men who have caused trouble all over the
world have now come here, (6)
7 and Jason has welcomed them
into his house. They are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is
another King, One called Jesus.”
8 When they heard
this, the crowd and the city officials were thrown into turmoil.
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30 In
the past God overlooked such ignorance,
but now He commands
all people everywhere to repent. (3)
31 For He has set a day when He will
judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of
this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
32 When they heard
about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We
want to hear you again on this subject.”
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21 (All
the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing
but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.) (3)
22 Paul then stood up in
the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every
way you are very religious.
23 For as I walked around
and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with
this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the
very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.
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12 As
a result, many of them believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women
and many Greek men. (3)
13 But when the Jews in
Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea, some of them went there too,
agitating the crowds and stirring them up.
14 The believers
immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at Berea.
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In Thessalonica
17 When Paul and his
companions had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica,
where there was a Jewish synagogue.
2 As was his custom,
Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the
Scriptures,
3 explaining and proving that the
Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to
you is the Messiah,” he said. (3)
4 Some of the Jews were
persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God-fearing
Greeks and quite a few prominent women.
5 But other Jews were
jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a
mob and started a riot in the city. They rushed to Jason’s house in search of Paul and
Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd.
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