17:1 Now
when
they
had
passed
through
Amphipolis
and
Apollonia,
they
came
to
Thessalonica,
where
there
was
a
synagogue
of
the
Jews.
17:2 And
Paul
went
in,
as
was
his
custom,
and
on
three
Sabbath
days
he
reasoned
with
them
from
the
Scriptures,
17:3 explaining
and
proving
that
it
was
necessary
for
the
Christ
to
suffer
and
to
rise
from
the
dead,
and
saying,
"This
Jesus,
whom
I
proclaim
to
you,
is
the
Christ."
17:4 And
some
of
them
were
persuaded
and
joined
Paul
and
Silas,
as
did
a
great
many
of
the
devout
Greeks
and
not
a
few
of
the
leading
women.
17:5 But
the
Jews
were
jealous,
and
taking
some
wicked
men
of
the
rabble,
they
formed
a
mob,
set
the
city
in
an
uproar,
and
attacked
the
house
of
Jason,
seeking
to
bring
them
out
to
the
crowd.
17:6 And
when
they
could
not
find
them,
they
dragged
Jason
and
some
of
the
brothers
before
the
city
authorities,
shouting,
"These
men
who
have
turned
the
world
upside
down
have
come
here
also,
17:7 and
Jason
has
received
them,
and
they
are
all
acting
against
the
decrees
of
Caesar,
saying
that
there
is
another
king,
Jesus."
17:8 And
the
people
and
the
city
authorities
were
disturbed
when
they
heard
these
things.
17:9 And
when
they
had
taken
money
as
security
from
Jason
and
the
rest,
they
let
them
go.
17:10 The
brothers
immediately
sent
Paul
and
Silas
away
by
night
to
Berea,
and
when
they
arrived
they
went
into
the
Jewish
synagogue.
17:11 Now
these
Jews
were
more
noble
than
those
in
Thessalonica;
they
received
the
word
with
all
eagerness,
examining
the
Scriptures
daily
to
see
if
these
things
were
so.
17:12 Many
of
them
therefore
believed,
with
not
a
few
Greek
women
of
high
standing
as
well
as
men.
17:13 But
when
the
Jews
from
Thessalonica
learned
that
the
word
of
God
was
proclaimed
by
Paul
at
Berea
also,
they
came
there
too,
agitating
and
stirring
up
the
crowds.
17:14 Then
the
brothers
immediately
sent
Paul
off
on
his
way
to
the
sea,
but
Silas
and
Timothy
remained
there.
17:15 Those
who
conducted
Paul
brought
him
as
far
as
Athens,
and
after
receiving
a
command
for
Silas
and
Timothy
to
come
to
him
as
soon
as
possible,
they
departed.
17:16 Now
while
Paul
was
waiting
for
them
at
Athens,
his
spirit
was
provoked
within
him
as
he
saw
that
the
city
was
full
of
idols.
17:17 So
he
reasoned
in
the
synagogue
with
the
Jews
and
the
devout
persons,
and
in
the
marketplace
every
day
with
those
who
happened
to
be
there.
17:18 Some
of
the
Epicurean
and
Stoic
philosophers
also
conversed
with
him.
And
some
said,
"What
does
this
babbler
wish
to
say"
Others
said,
"He
seems
to
be
a
preacher
of
foreign
divinities"--because
he
was
preaching
Jesus
and
the
resurrection.
17:19 And
they
took
him
and
brought
him
to
the
Areopagus,
saying,
"May
we
know
what
this
new
teaching
is
that
you
are
presenting
17:20 For
you
bring
some
strange
things
to
our
ears.
We
wish
to
know
therefore
what
these
things
mean."
17:21 Now
all
the
Athenians
and
the
foreigners
who
lived
there
would
spend
their
time
in
nothing
except
telling
or
hearing
something
new.
17:22 So
Paul,
standing
in
the
midst
of
the
Areopagus,
said:
"Men
of
Athens,
I
perceive
that
in
every
way
you
are
very
religious.
17:23 For
as
I
passed
along
and
observed
the
objects
of
your
worship,
I
found
also
an
altar
with
this
inscription,
'To
the
unknown
god.'
What
therefore
you
worship
as
unknown,
this
I
proclaim
to
you.
17:24 The
God
who
made
the
world
and
everything
in
it,
being
Lord
of
heaven
and
earth,
does
not
live
in
temples
made
by
man,
17:25 nor
is
he
served
by
human
hands,
as
though
he
needed
anything,
since
he
himself
gives
to
all
mankind
life
and
breath
and
everything.
17:26 And
he
made
from
one
man
every
nation
of
mankind
to
live
on
all
the
face
of
the
earth,
having
determined
allotted
periods
and
the
boundaries
of
their
dwelling
place,
17:27 that
they
should
seek
God,
in
the
hope
that
they
might
feel
their
way
toward
him
and
find
him.
Yet
he
is
actually
not
far
from
each
one
of
us,
17:28 for
"'In
him
we
live
and
move
and
have
our
being';
as
even
some
of
your
own
poets
have
said,
"'For
we
are
indeed
his
offspring.'
17:29 Being
then
God's
offspring,
we
ought
not
to
think
that
the
divine
being
is
like
gold
or
silver
or
stone,
an
image
formed
by
the
art
and
imagination
of
man.
17:30 The
times
of
ignorance
God
overlooked,
but
now
he
commands
all
people
everywhere
to
repent,
17:31 because
he
has
fixed
a
day
on
which
he
will
judge
the
world
in
righteousness
by
a
man
whom
he
has
appointed;
and
of
this
he
has
given
assurance
to
all
by
raising
him
from
the
dead."
17:32 Now
when
they
heard
of
the
resurrection
of
the
dead,
some
mocked.
But
others
said,
"We
will
hear
you
again
about
this."
17:33 So
Paul
went
out
from
their
midst.
17:34 But
some
men
joined
him
and
believed,
among
whom
also
were
Dionysius
the
Areopagite
and
a
woman
named
Damaris
and
others
with
them.