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17:1  Having passed through · · Amphipolis and · Apollonia, Paul and Silas came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
17:2  And according to · Paul’s custom, · he went to them and for three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
17:3  explaining and demonstrating that it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise from the dead, and that, “This one is the Messiah, this Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you.”
17:4  And some of them were persuaded and cast their lot with · Paul and · Silas, · both a great number of devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.
17:5  But the Jews, moved by envy, · recruited certain wicked men of the marketplace and, forming a mob, they set the city in an uproar. · They attacked the house of Jason, trying to bring them out to the people.
17:6  But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some fellow believers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,
17:7  and Jason has received them as guests; and all these men are acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”
17:8  And they stirred up the people and the city authorities who heard these things.
17:9  And when they had taken · bail from · Jason and the others, they let them go.
17:10  And the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas off by night · · to Berea. When they got there, they went to the synagogue of the Jews.
17:11  These Jews · were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with all eagerness, examining the scriptures every day to see if these things were so.
17:12  So many of them believed, with not a few · prominent Greek women · and men.
17:13  But when the Jews from · Thessalonica learned that also in · Berea the word of God was proclaimed by · Paul, they came there too, inciting and stirring up the crowds.
17:14  Then immediately · · the brothers sent Paul away, to go as far as to the sea, but · both Silas and · Timothy remained there.
17:15  Those · who conducted · Paul brought him as far as Athens, and receiving an order for · Silas and · Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.
17:16  Now · while Paul was waiting for them · at Athens, his spirit was stirred up · within him on seeing the city full of idols.
17:17  So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the worshippers, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.
17:18  Also some · of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, “What does this babbler want · to say?” Others said, · “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange gods,” for he was announcing the good news about · Jesus and the resurrection.
17:19  And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what is · this new · teaching being presented by you?
17:20  For you bring some strange things to · our ears, so we want to know what these things mean.”
17:21  (Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there used to spend their time in nothing else than to tell or to hear 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 a very devout people.
17:23  For as I went around and observed · your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, ‘To an unknown god.’ So what you worship without knowing, 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 shrines made by human hands,
17:25  nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and · everything.
17:26  And he made from one man every race of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted epochs and the fixed boundaries of the places where they would live,
17:27  that they should seek · God, if perhaps that they might grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from each one of us.
17:28  ‘For in him we live and move about and exist,’ as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’
17:29  So since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divine being is like an image carved in gold or silver or stone by human skill and imagination.
17:30  So then, God overlooked the times of ignorance, · · but now he orders · men to repent, all of them in all places,
17:31  because he has appointed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed, having provided proof 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 departed 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.