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[21],[22],[23],[24],[25],[26],[27],[28]
Acts 17
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and
Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a
synagogue of the Jews:
2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them,
and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of
the scriptures,
3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have
suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that
this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul
and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great
multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy,
took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort,
and gathered a company, and set all the city on an
uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought
to bring them out to the people.
6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and
certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying,
These that have turned the world upside down are come
hither also;
7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary
to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another
king, one Jesus.
8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the
city, when they heard these things.
9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of
the other, they let them go.
10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and
Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went
into the synagogue of the Jews.
11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,
in that they received the word with all readiness of
mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether
those things were so.
12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable
women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that
the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they
came thither also, and stirred up the people.
14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul
to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus
abode there still.
15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto
Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and
Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they
departed.
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his
spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city
wholly given to idolatry.
17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the
Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market
daily with them that met with him.
18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and
of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What
will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be
a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached
unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus,
saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof
thou speakest, is?
20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our
ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were
there spent their time in nothing else, but either
to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and
said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things
ye are too superstitious.
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I
found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN
GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him
declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein,
seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth
not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though
he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life,
and breath, and all things;
26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for
to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before appointed, and the bounds
of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they
might feel after him, and find him, though he be not
far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being;
as certain also of your own poets have said, For we
are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we
ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold,
or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but
now commandeth all men every where to repent:
31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he
will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom
he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto
all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead,
some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again
of this matter.
33 So Paul departed from among them.
34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed:
among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a
woman named Damaris, and others with them.
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