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Acts 17

Paul at Thessalonica

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Now when they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to  aThessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

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And  aaccording to Paul's custom, he went to them, and for three  bSabbaths reasoned with them from  cthe Scriptures,

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 1explaining and  2giving evidence that the  3Christ  ahad to suffer and  brise again from the dead, and saying,cThis Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the  3Christ."

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 aAnd some of them were persuaded and joined  bPaul and Silas,  1along with a large number of the  cGod-fearing  dGreeks and  2a number of the  eleading women.

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But  athe Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the market place, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and attacking the house of  bJason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people.

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When they did not find them, they began  adragging Jason and some brethren before the city authorities, shouting, "These men who have upset  1 bthe world have come here also;

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 1and Jason  ahas welcomed them, and they all act  bcontrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus."

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They stirred up the crowd and the city authorities who heard these things.

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And when they had received a  1pledge from  aJason and the others, they released them.

Paul at Berea

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 aThe brethren immediately sent  bPaul and Silas away by night to  cBerea,  1and when they arrived, they went into  dthe synagogue of the Jews.

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Now these were more noble-minded than those in  aThessalonica,  1for they received the word with  2great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

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Therefore  amany of them believed,  1along with a number of  bprominent Greek  cwomen and men.

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But when the Jews of  aThessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in  bBerea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

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Then immediately  athe brethren sent Paul out to go as far as the sea; and  bSilas and  cTimothy remained there.

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Now  athose who escorted Paul brought him as far as  bAthens; and receiving a command for  cSilas and Timothy to  dcome to him as soon as possible, they left.

Paul at Athens

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Now while Paul was waiting for them at  aAthens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols.

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So he was reasoning  ain the synagogue with the Jews and  bthe God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present.

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And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were  1conversing with him. Some were saying, "What would  athis  2idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"--because he was preaching  bJesus and the resurrection.

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And they  atook him and brought him  1to the  2 bAreopagus, saying, "May we know what  cthis new teaching is  3which you are proclaiming?

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"For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."

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(Now all the Athenians and the strangers  avisiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)

Sermon on Mars Hill

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So Paul stood in the midst of the  1Areopagus and said, "Men of  aAthens, I observe that you are very  breligious in all respects.

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"For while I was passing through and examining the  aobjects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, `TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' Therefore what  byou worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

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aThe God who made the world and all things in it, since He is  bLord of heaven and earth, does not  cdwell in temples made with hands;

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nor is He served by human hands,  aas though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

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and  aHe made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having  bdetermined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

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that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him,  athough He is not far from each one of us;

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for  ain Him we live and move and  1exist, as even some of your own poets have said, `For we also are His children.'

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"Being then the children of God, we  aought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

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"Therefore having  aoverlooked  bthe times of ignorance, God is  cnow declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,

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because He has fixed  aa day in which  bHe will judge  1 cthe world in righteousness  2through a Man whom He has  dappointed, having furnished proof to all men  3by  eraising Him from the dead."

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Now when they heard of  athe resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, "We shall hear you  1again concerning this."

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So Paul went out of their midst.

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But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the  aAreopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.



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