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Chapter 17 Now when they had passed
through Amphipolis and Apollonia,

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they came to Thessalonica, where was a
synagogue of the Jews.

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And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto
them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with

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them out of the Scriptures, opening and
alleging that Christ must needs have

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suffered, and risen again from the dead,
and that...

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This Jesus, whom I preach unto you,
is Christ.

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And some of them believed, and consorted
with Paul and Silas, and of the devout

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Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief
women not a few.

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But the Jews, which believed not,
moved with envy, took unto them certain

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lewd fellows of the baser sort,
and gathered a company, and set all the

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city on an uproar, and assaulted the house
of Jason, and sought to bring them out to

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the people.

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And when they found them not, they drew
Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers

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of the city, crying, These that have
turned the world upside down are come

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hither also, whom Jason hath received,
and these all do contrary to the decrees

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of Caesar, saying that there is another
king, one Jesus.

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And they troubled the people and the
rulers of the city when they heard these

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things.

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And when they had taken security of Jason
and of the other, they let them go.

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And the brethren immediately sent away
Paul and Silas by night unto Berea,

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who coming thither went into the synagogue
of the Jews.

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These were more noble than those in
Thessalonica, in that they received the

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word with all readiness of mind,
and searched the scriptures daily,

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whether those things were so.

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Therefore many of them believed,
also of honorable women which were Greeks,

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and of men not a few.

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But when the Jews of Thessalonica had
knowledge that the word of God was

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preached of Paul at Berea, they came
thither also, and stirred up the people.

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And then immediately the brethren sent
away Paul to go, as it were, to the sea.

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But Silas and Timotheus abode there still.

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And they that conducted Paul brought him
unto Athens, and receiving a commandment

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unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to
him with all speed, they departed.

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Now while Paul waited for them at Athens,
his spirit was stirred in him,

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when he saw the city wholly given to
idolatry.

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Therefore disputed he in the synagogue
with the Jews and with the devout persons,

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and in the market daily with them that met
with him.

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Then certain philosophers of the
Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered

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him.

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And some said, What will this babbler say?

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Other some, He seemeth to be a setter
forth of strange gods.

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Because he preached unto them Jesus and
the resurrection.

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And they took him, and brought him unto
Areopagus, saying, May we know what this

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new doctrine whereof thou speakest is?

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For thou bringest certain strange things
to our ears.

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We would know, therefore, what these
things mean.

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For all the Athenians and strangers which
were there spent their time in nothing

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else but either to tell or to hear some
new thing.

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Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars Hill
and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive

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that in all things ye are too
superstitious.

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For as I passed by and beheld your
devotions, I found an altar with this

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inscription, To the unknown God,
whom therefore ye ignorantly worship.

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Him declare I unto you.

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God that made the world and all things
therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven

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and earth, dwelleth not in temples made
with hands.

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Neither is worshipped with men's hands,
as though he needed anything, seeing he

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giveth to all life and breath and all
things.

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And hath made of one blood all nations of
men, for to dwell on all the face of the

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earth.

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And hath determined the times before
appointed, and the bounds of their

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habitation.

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That they should seek the Lord,
if happily they might feel after him and

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find him, though he be not far from every
one of us.

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For in him we live and move and have our
being, as certain also of your own poets

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have said, for we are also his offspring.

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For as much then as we are the offspring
of God, we ought not to think that the

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Godhead is likened to gold, or silver,
or stone, graven by art and man's device.

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And the times of this ignorance God winked
at.

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But now commandeth all men everywhere to
repent, because he hath appointed a day,

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in the which he will judge the world in
righteousness by that man whom he hath

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ordained, whereof he hath given assurance
unto all men, and that he hath raised him

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from the dead.

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And when they heard of the resurrection of
the dead, some mocked, and others said,

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We will hear thee again of this matter.

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So Paul departed from among them,
howbeit certain men clave unto him and

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believed, among the which was Dionysius
the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris,

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and others with them.