Verse 1
Acts 17:1
World English Bible, British Edition
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Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to
Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Original Language Text
greek
Διοδεύσαντες δὲ τὴν Ἀμφίπολιν καὶ ⸀τὴν Ἀπολλωνίαν ἦλθον εἰς Θεσσαλονίκην, ὅπου ⸀ἦν συναγωγὴ τῶν Ἰουδαίων.
English Translation
And having traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
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Chapter 17 Context
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Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to
Thessalonica, where there wa...
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Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days
reasoned with them from the Scr...
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explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again
from the dead, and saying,...
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Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the
devout Greeks a great multitude, and n...
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But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd,
set...
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When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, c...
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whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar,
saying that there is anoth...
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The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard
these things.
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When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
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The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to
Beroea. When they arrived, they went i...
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Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that
they received the word with all readin...
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Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women,
and not a few men.
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But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God (Elohim)
was proclaimed by Paul...
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Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the
sea, and Silas and Timothy still...
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15
But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving
a commandment to Silas and Timot...
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Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked
within him as he saw the city full...
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So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons,
and in the marketplace every d...
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Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does th...
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They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying,
“May we know what this new teaching...
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For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore
what these things mean.”
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Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time
in nothing else, but either to...
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Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men
of Athens, I perceive that you are very...
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For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also
found an altar with this insc...
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The God (Elohim) who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of
heaven and earth, doesn’...
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He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing
he himself gives to all life an...
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He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface
of the earth, having determin...
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that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for
him and find him, though he is n...
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‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own
poets have said, ‘For we are als...
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Being then the offspring of God (Elohim), we ought not to think that the Divine
Nature is like gold,...
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The times of ignorance therefore God (Elohim) overlooked. But now he commands
that all people everyw...
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because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in
righteousness by the man whom he...
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Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked;
but others said, “We want to hear...
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Thus Paul went out from amongst them.
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But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the
Areopagite, and a woman named...
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