Verse 16
Acts 17:16
World English Bible
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Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
Original Language Text
greek
Ἐν δὲ ταῖς Ἀθήναις ἐκδεχομένου αὐτοὺς τοῦ Παύλου, παρωξύνετο τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ ⸀θεωροῦντος κατείδωλον οὖσαν τὴν πόλιν.
English Translation
But while in Athens waiting for them, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.
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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...
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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,...
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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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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 ver...
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For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this ins...
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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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neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all li...
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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, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are...
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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 among them.
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But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a w...
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