Acts 17 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Paul at Thessalonica

Act 17:1And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews,

Act 17:2

Act 17:2and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

Act 17:3

Act 17:3opening and alleging, 'That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ -- Jesus whom I proclaim to you.'

Act 17:4

Act 17:4And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.

Act 17:5

Act 17:5And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring them to the populace,

Act 17:6

Act 17:6and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud -- 'These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present,

Act 17:7

Act 17:7whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king -- Jesus.'

Act 17:8

Act 17:8And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things,

Act 17:9

Act 17:9and having taking security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

Paul at Berea

Act 17:10

Act 17:10And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews;

Act 17:11

Act 17:11and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

Act 17:12

Act 17:12many, indeed, therefore, of them did believe, and of the honourable Greek women and men not a few.

Act 17:13

Act 17:13And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came thither also, agitating the multitudes;

Act 17:14

Act 17:14and then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining there.

Act 17:15

Act 17:15And those conducting Paul, brought him unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come unto him, they departed;

Paul at Athens

Act 17:16

Act 17:16and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,

Act 17:17

Act 17:17therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.

Act 17:18

Act 17:18And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, 'What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, 'Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

Act 17:19

Act 17:19having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought him, saying, 'Are we able to know what is this new teaching that is spoken by thee,

Act 17:20

Act 17:20for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

Act 17:21

Act 17:21and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.

Sermon on Mars Hill

Act 17:22

Act 17:22And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, 'Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;

Act 17:23

Act 17:23for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God -- unknown; whom, therefore -- not knowing -- ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

Act 17:24

Act 17:24'God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,

Act 17:25

Act 17:25neither by the hands of men is He served -- needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;

Act 17:26

Act 17:26He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings --

Act 17:27

Act 17:27to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, -- though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

Act 17:28

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

Act 17:29

Act 17:29'Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;

Act 17:30

Act 17:30the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

Act 17:31

Act 17:31because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

Act 17:32

Act 17:32And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, 'We will hear thee again concerning this;'

Act 17:33

Act 17:33and so Paul went forth from the midst of them,

Act 17:34

Act 17:34and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom is also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.

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Acts 17 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Paul at Thessalonica

Paul at Berea

Paul at Athens

Sermon on Mars Hill

Pericope