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Acts 17:1-20

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1Now traveling through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
2And according to Paul's custom, he went in to them, and for three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
3interpreting and pointing out that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer, and to arise from the dead, and saying that “This Jesus, whom I preach to you, is the Christ.”
4And some of them were persuaded and were joined with Paul and Silas, both of the devout Greeks, a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
5And the Jews who did not believe took some wicked men from the marketplace, and forming a mob, they threw the city into disorder, and came upon the house of Jason, and sought to bring them to the people.
6But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying out, “The men who have turned the world upside down have come here, too;
7whom Jason has received; and these all practice contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king—Jesus.”
8And they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things.
9And having taken the security bond from Jason and the rest, they released them.
10Then the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away during the night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all readiness, each day examining the Scriptures to see whether these things might be so.
12Therefore many of them believed, and not a few of the prominent Greek women and men.
13But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they came there also, agitating the crowds.
14Then immediately the brothers sent Paul away to go toward the sea; but both Silas and Timothy remained there.
15Now those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy, that as quickly as possible they should come to him, they departed.
16And in Athens, while Paul waited for them, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was full of idols.
17Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those coming by.
18And also some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, “What does this seed-picker wish to say?” But others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,” because he was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.
19And taking hold of him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is you speak about?
20For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we desire to know what these things might mean.”

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