AC-17:1  Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and

Apollonia,


they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:




AC-17:2  And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and

three


sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,




AC-17:3  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.




AC-17:4  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.




AC-17:5  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.




AC-17:6  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;




AC-17:7  Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to

the


decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, [one]

Jesus.




AC-17:8  And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city,


when they heard these things.




AC-17:9  And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the


other, they let them go.




AC-17:10  And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas

by


night unto Berea: who coming [thither] went into the synagogue of


the Jews.




AC-17:11  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.




AC-17:12  Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable

women


which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.




AC-17:13  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.




AC-17:14  And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go

as


it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.




AC-17:15  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.




AC-17:16  Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit

was


stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.




AC-17:17  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.




AC-17:18  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.




AC-17:19  And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus,

saying,


May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, [is]?




AC-17:20  For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears:

we


would know therefore what these things mean.




AC-17:21  (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.)




AC-17:22  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.




AC-17:23  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. AC-17:24




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;




AC-17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he

needed




any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all

things;




AC-17:26  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;




AC-17:27  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:




AC-17:28  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.




AC-17:29  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.




AC-17:30  And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now


commandeth all men every where to repent:




AC-17:31  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.




AC-17:32  And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead,

some


mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this

[matter].




AC-17:33  So Paul departed from among them.




AC-17:34  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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