Acts 17:1-34 THE HOLY BIBLE-The Acts Of The Apostles Chapter 17:1-34

The Acts of the Apostles 28-12-2023, 20:13

Acts 17:1-34 THE HOLY BIBLE- The Acts Of The Apostles Chapter 17:1-34 Acts 17:1 When they took the road through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they reached Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

Acts 17:1-34 THE HOLY BIBLE-

The Acts Of The Apostles Chapter 17:1-34

 

Acts 17:1 When they took the road through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they reached Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

 

Acts 17:2 Following his usual custom, Paul joined them, and for three sabbaths he entered into discussions with them from the scriptures,

 

Acts 17:3 expounding and demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead, and that "This is the Messiah, Jesus, whom I proclaim to you."

 

Acts 17:4 Some of them were convinced and joined Paul and Silas; so, too, a great number of Greeks who were worshipers, and not a few of the prominent women.

 

Acts 17:5 But the Jews became jealous and recruited some worthless men loitering in the public square, formed a mob, and set the city in turmoil. They marched on the house of Jason, intending to bring them before the people's assembly.

 

Acts 17:6 When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city magistrates, shouting, "These people who have been creating a disturbance all over the world have now come here,

 

Acts 17:7 and Jason has welcomed them. They all act in opposition to the decrees of Caesar and claim instead that there is another king, Jesus." 

 

Acts 17:8 They stirred up the crowd and the city magistrates who, upon hearing these charges,

 

Acts 17:9 took a surety payment from Jason and the others before releasing them.

 

Acts 17:10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas to Beroea during the night. Upon arrival they went to the synagogue of the Jews.

 

Acts 17:11 These Jews were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all willingness and examined the scriptures daily to determine whether these things were so.

 

Acts 17:12 Many of them became believers, as did not a few of the influential Greek women and men.

 

Acts 17:13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God had now been proclaimed by Paul in Beroea also, they came there too to cause a commotion and stir up the crowds.

 

Acts 17:14 So the brothers at once sent Paul on his way to the seacoast, while Silas and Timothy remained behind.

 

Acts 17:15 After Paul's escorts had taken him to Athens, they came away with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.

 

Acts 17:16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he grew exasperated at the sight of the city full of idols.

 

Acts 17:17 So he debated in the synagogue with the Jews and with the worshipers, and daily in the public square with whoever happened to be there.

 

Acts 17:18 Even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers  engaged him in discussion. Some asked, "What is this scavenger trying to say?" Others said, "He sounds like a promoter of foreign deities," because he was preaching about 'Jesus' and 'Resurrection.'

 

Acts 17:19 They took him and led him to the Areopagus  and said, "May we learn what this new teaching is that you speak of?

 

Acts 17:20 For you bring some strange notions to our ears; we should like to know what these things mean."

 

Acts 17:21 Now all the Athenians as well as the foreigners residing there used their time for nothing else but telling or hearing something new.

 

Acts 17:22 Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said:  "You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious.

 

Acts 17:23 For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God.'  What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.

 

Acts 17:24 The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands,

 

Acts 17:25 nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.

 

Acts 17:26 He made from one  the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,

 

Acts 17:27 so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us.

 

Acts 17:28 For 'In him we live and move and have our being,'  as even some of your poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.'

 

Acts 17:29 Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.

 

Acts 17:30 God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent

 

Acts 17:31 because he has established a day on which he will 'judge the world with justice' through a man he has appointed, and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him from the dead."

 

Acts 17:32 When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, "We should like to hear you on this some other time."

 

Acts 17:33 And so Paul left them.

 

Acts 17:34 But some did join him, and became believers. Among them were Dionysius, a member of the Court of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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