Acts 17

About Acts Acts tells how the Holy Spirit came and the good news about Jesus spread from Jerusalem to Rome.

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:SelectedActs 17:1Ask

And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,SelectedActs 17:2Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:3Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:4Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:5Ask

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;SelectedActs 17:6Ask

Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.SelectedActs 17:7Ask

And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.SelectedActs 17:8Ask

And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.SelectedActs 17:9Ask

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.SelectedActs 17:10Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:11Ask

Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.SelectedActs 17:12Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:13Ask

And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.SelectedActs 17:14Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:15Ask

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.SelectedActs 17:16Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:17Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:18Ask

And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?SelectedActs 17:19Ask

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.SelectedActs 17:20Ask

(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.)SelectedActs 17:21Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:22Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:23Ask

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;SelectedActs 17:24Ask

Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;SelectedActs 17:25Ask

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;SelectedActs 17:26Ask

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:SelectedActs 17:27Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:28Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:29Ask

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:SelectedActs 17:30Ask

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.SelectedActs 17:31Ask

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.SelectedActs 17:32Ask

So Paul departed from among them.SelectedActs 17:33Ask

Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.SelectedActs 17:34Ask

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