DAY 18

AC-16:34  And when he had brought them into his house, he set

meat

before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.

AC-16:35  And when it was day, the magistrates sent the

serjeants,

saying, Let those men go.

AC-16:36  And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul,

The

magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and

go in

peace.

AC-16:37  But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly

uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast [us] into prison; and

now

do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come

themselves and fetch us out.

AC-16:38  And the serjeants told these words unto the

magistrates:

and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

AC-16:39  And they came and besought them, and brought [them]

out,

and desired [them] to depart out of the city.

AC-16:40  And they went out of the prison, and entered into [the

house of] Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they

comforted

them, and departed.

*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; 

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