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Acts 17 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Paul in Thessalonica

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Now when they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:2 - And according to Paul’s custom, he [fn]visited them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:3 - [fn]explaining and [fn]giving evidence that the [fn]Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the [fn]Christ.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:4 - And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, [fn]along with a large number of the God-fearing Greeks and [fn]a significant number of the leading women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:5 - But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the marketplace, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and they attacked the house of Jason and were seeking to bring them out to the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:6 - When they did not find them, they began dragging Jason and some brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have upset [fn]the world have come here also;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:7 - [fn]and Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:8 - They stirred up the crowd and the city authorities who heard these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:9 - And when they had received a [fn]pledge from Jason and the others, they released them.

Paul in Berea

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The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, [fn]and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:11 - Now these people were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, [fn]for they received the word with [fn]great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:12 - Therefore, many of them believed, [fn]along with a significant number of prominent Greek women and men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:13 - But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:14 - Then immediately the brothers sent Paul out to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:15 - Now those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.

Paul in Athens

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Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he observed that the city was full of idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:17 - So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be present.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:18 - And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers as well were [fn]conversing with him. Some were saying, “What could this [fn]scavenger of tidbits want to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:19 - And they took him and brought him [fn]to the [fn]Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is [fn]which you are proclaiming?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:20 - “For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:21 - (Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)

Sermon on Mars Hill

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So Paul stood in the midst of the [fn]Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:23 - “For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:24 - “The God who made the world and everything that is in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made by hands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:25 - nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:26 - and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:27 - that they would seek God, if perhaps they might feel around for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:28 - for in Him we live and move and [fn]exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His descendants.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:29 - “Therefore, since we are the descendants of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:30 - “So having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now proclaiming to mankind that all people everywhere are to repent,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:31 - because He has set a day on which He will judge [fn]the world in righteousness [fn]through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all people [fn]by raising Him from the dead.”

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Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, “We shall hear from you [fn]again concerning this.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:33 - So Paul went out from among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 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.
See the NASB20 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit entered to them
Lit opening
Lit placing before
I.e., Messiah
I.e., Messiah
Lit and a large
Lit not a few
Lit the inhabited earth
Lit whom Jason has welcomed
Or bond
Lit who when...arrived went
Lit who received
Lit all
Lit and not a few
Or disputing
Lit seed gatherer; i.e., an unlearned person collecting only scraps of knowledge
Or before
Or Hill of Ares; Greek god of war
Lit which is being spoken by you
Or the Council of the Areopagus
Lit are
Lit the inhabited earth
Lit by; or in
Or when He raised
Lit also again
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