NOW  when they had passdthrough Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica , where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

2 Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scritures,

3 Explining and demostrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying," This Jesuswhom I preach to you is the Christ."

4 And some of theme were persuaded ; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas.

5 But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uroar and atacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them to the people.

6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out ,"These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.

7 "Jason has harbored them, and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king - Jesus."

8 And they truled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these  things.

9 So when they had taken security from Jason and the rest , they let them go.

10 Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea.When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews .

11 These were more fair - minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readines, and searched the Scripture daily to find out whether these things were so.

12 Therefore manyof them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominentwomen as well as men.

13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the crowds.

14 Then immedaitely the brethren sent Paul away, to go to the sea ; but both Silas and Timothy remained there .

15 So those wo conducted Paul brought him to Athenes ;and and recieving a comand for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.

16 Now while Paul waited for them at a Athens, his spirit was provoked whithin him when he saw that the city was given over to idols.

17 Therefore he reasoned inthe synagoge with the Jews and with the Gentiles worshipers, and the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there.

18 The certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encontered him. And some said," What does this babbler went to say ? " Others said," He seemsto be a proclaimer of foreign gods," because he preached to  them Jesus and the resurrection.

19 And they took him and brought him to Arepagus, saying," May we know what this new doctrne is of which you speak ?

20 "For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Thereforewe want toknow what these things mean."

21 For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

22 Then Paul stood in the midst of the Arepagus and said," Men of Athens, I perceive that inallthings you are very religious ;

23 "For as I passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription : TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore , the One whom you worship without knowing ,Him I proclaim to you.

24 "God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.

25 "Nor is He worshiped withmen's hands, as though He needed anything, since He givesto alllife , breath, an all things.

26"And He had made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaried of their dwelling,

27 "So that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far eachoneof us;

28 "For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said,' For we also His offspring.'

 29 "Therefore , since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silveror stone, something shaped by art and man's devising.

30 "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.

31 "Because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom  He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead."

32 And when they heard of resurrection of the dead , some mocked, while other said," We will hear you again on this matter."

33 So Pauldeparted from among them.

34 However,some menjoined himandbelieved,amongthemDionysius theAreopagite, awoman namedDamaris, and others with them. ACTS 17