17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
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17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in to them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
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17:3 Opening and alleging, that it was needful that the Messiah should suffer, and rise again from the dead; and saying, This YASHUWAH, whom I preach to you*, is the Messiah.
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17:4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas: and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and many of the chief women.
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17:5 But the Jews who did not believe, moved with envy, took for themselves some 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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17:6 And when they did not find them, they drew Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These who have turned the world upside down, have come here also;
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17:7 Whom Jason has received: and they all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying, That there is another king, YASHUWAH.
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17:8 And they troubled the people, and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.
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17:9 And when they had taken security of Jason and of the other, they let them go.
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17:10 And the brothers immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea: who coming there, went into the synagogue of the Jews.
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17:11 These 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.
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17:12 Therefore many of them believed; along with a number of honorable women and men who were Greeks.
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17:13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of Elohim was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also, and stirred up the people.
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17:14 And then immediately the brothers sent Paul away, to go as far as to the sea: but Silas and Timothy abode there still.
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17:15 And those who conducted Paul brought him to Athens: and receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.
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17:16 Now, while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
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17:17 Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with those who met with him.
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17:18 Then some philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? some others, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange elohims: because he preached to them YASHUWAH and the resurrection.
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17:19 And they took him, and brought him to Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is, of which you speak?
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17:20 For you bringest some strange things to our ears; we therefore wish to know what these things mean.
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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.)
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17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you* are too superstitious.
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17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your* devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN ELOHIM. Therefore whom you* ignorantly worship, I declare him to you*.
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17:24 Elohim who made the world, and all things in it, seeing that he is Master of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;
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17:25 Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he gives to all life, breath, and all things;
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17:26 And has made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation;
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17:27 That they should seek YASHUWAH, if perhaps they might feel after him, and find him, though he is not far from each one of us:
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17:28 For in him we live, move, and have our being; as some of your* own poets have also said, for we are also his offspring.
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17:29 Being then the offspring of Elohim, we ought not to think that the Elohim-Himself is like gold, silver, or stone engraved by art and man's device.
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17:30 And the times of this ignorance Elohim winked at; but now commands all men everywhere to repent:
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17:31 Because he has appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he has ordained: of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
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17:32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again concerning this matter.
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17:33 So Paul departed from among them.
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17:34 But some men adhered to him, and believed: among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.