Acts 17 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Paul at Thessalonica

Act 17:1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews.

Act 17:2

Act 17:2And Paul, as his manner was, went in to them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

Act 17:3

Act 17:3Opening and alledging, that it was needful that Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach to you, is Christ.

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Act 17:4And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas: and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

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Act 17:5But the Jews who believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain vile fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

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Act 17:6And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down, have come hither also;

Act 17:7

Act 17:7Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying, That there is another king, one Jesus.

Act 17:8

Act 17:8And they troubled the people, and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.

Act 17:9

Act 17:9And when they had taken security of Jason and of the other, they let them go.

Paul at Berea

Act 17:10

Act 17:10And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea: who coming thither, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

Act 17:11

Act 17:11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Act 17:12

Act 17:12Therefore many of them believed; also of honorable women who were Greeks, and of men not a few.

Act 17:13

Act 17:13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.

Act 17:14

Act 17:14And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul, to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timothy abode there still.

Act 17:15

Act 17:15And they that conducted Paul brought him to Athens: and receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.

Paul at Athens

Act 17:16

Act 17:16Now, while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

Act 17:17

Act 17:17Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

Act 17:18

Act 17:18Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? some others, He seemeth to be a setter-forth of strange gods: because he preached to them Jesus, and the resurrection.

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Act 17:19And they took him, and brought him to Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is, of which thou speakest?

Act 17:20

Act 17:20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears; we would know therefore what these things mean.

Act 17:21

Act 17:21(For all the Athenians and strangers who were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

Sermon on Mars Hill

Act 17:22

Act 17:22Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

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Act 17:23For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I to you.

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Act 17:24God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

Act 17:25

Act 17:25Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

Act 17:26

Act 17:26And hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

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Act 17:27That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he is not far from every one of us:

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Act 17:28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, for we are also his offspring.

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Act 17:29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone graven by art and man's device.

Act 17:30

Act 17:30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Act 17:31

Act 17:31Because he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained: of which he hath given assurance to all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Act 17:32

Act 17:32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again concerning this matter.

Act 17:33

Act 17:33So Paul departed from among them.

Act 17:34

Act 17:34But certain men adhered to him, and believed: among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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