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ULT ACTs Chapter 17

17 Now passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where a synagogue of the Jews was. 2 And according to the custom of Paul, he went to them, and on three Sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Scriptures, 3 fully opening them and demonstrating 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.” 4 And some from them were persuaded and were associated with Paul and Silas, both a large number of worshiping Greeks and not a few of the leading women. 5 But the Jews, having become jealous, and having brought certain wicked men from the marketplace, and having gathered a crowd, they agitated the city. And attacking the house of Jason, they sought to lead them out to the people. 6 But not having found them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers to the city officials, shouting, “The ones having turned the world upside down, they are also present here, 7 whom Jason and all these men have welcomed. They are acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus.” 8 And they agitated the crowd and the city officials hearing these things. 9 And having received a bond from Jason and the rest, they released them.

10 But the brothers immediately sent away both Paul and Silas by night to Berea, who, having arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all readiness, examining the Scriptures each day, whether these things might be so. 12 Then indeed many of them believed, even influential Greek women and not a few men. 13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was also being proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there also, exciting and troubling the crowds. 14 So then the brothers immediately sent Paul away to go as far as to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy stayed there. 15 But the ones conducting Paul brought him as far as Athens and, having received a command to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.

16 Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him, seeing the city being full of idols. 17 So indeed he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the ones worshiping and in the marketplace every day with the ones meeting him. 18 But also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were disputing with him. And some were saying, “What might this word-picker want to say?” But others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he was proclaiming Jesus and the resurrection. 19 And taking hold of him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “Are we able to know what this new teaching is that is being spoken by you? 20 For you are bringing some startling things into our ears. Therefore, we wish to know what these things want to be.” 21 (Now all the Athenians and the sojourning foreigners were devoting their leisure to nothing other than either to say something or to hear something newer.) 22 And Paul, having been stood in the middle of the Areopagus, was saying,

“Men, Athenians, I see how you are more religious in everything. 23 For passing through and observing your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which had been inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God.’ What therefore you worship not knowing, this I announce to you. 24 The God having made the world and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in hand-built temples. 25 Neither is he cared for by hands of men, needing anything, himself giving life and breath and all things to all. 26 And from one he made every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 to seek God, if perhaps they might feel around for him and find him, yet indeed not being far from each one of us. 28 For ‘in him we live and are moved and are,’ and as some of your own poets have said,

‘For we too are his offspring.’ 29 Therefore, being offspring of God, we ought not to consider the Divine to be similar to gold or silver or stone—images of the skill and imagination of man. 30 Therefore God, having indeed overlooked the times of ignorance, now to men commands everyone everywhere to repent, 31 because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed, having provided assurance to all, having raised him from the dead.”

32 Now hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some indeed mocked, but others said, “We will hear you also again concerning this.” 33 So Paul went out from their midst. 34 But certain men, being joined to him, believed, among whom were even Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman, Damaris by name, and others with them.

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