Acts Chapter 17

• Acts 17:1
  Acts.
• Acts 17:2
  Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
• Acts 17:3
  Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
• Acts 17:4
  explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Chris...
• Acts 17:5
  Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
• Acts 17:6
  But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jas...
• Acts 17:7
  When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside dow...
• Acts 17:8
  whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
• Acts 17:9
  The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
• Acts 17:10
  When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
• Acts 17:11
  The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
• Acts 17:12
  Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see...
• Acts 17:13
  Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
• Acts 17:14
  But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the mu...
• Acts 17:15
  Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
• Acts 17:16
  But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they...
• Acts 17:17
  Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
• Acts 17:18
  So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
• Acts 17:19
  Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to...
• Acts 17:20
  They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
• Acts 17:21
  For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
• Acts 17:22
  Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
• Acts 17:23
  Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
• Acts 17:24
  For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you w...
• Acts 17:25
  The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
• Acts 17:26
  He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
• Acts 17:27
  He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their d...
• Acts 17:28
  that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
• Acts 17:29
  ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
• Acts 17:30
  Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
• Acts 17:31
  The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
• Acts 17:32
  because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to a...
• Acts 17:33
  Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
• Acts 17:34
  Thus Paul went out from among them.
• Acts 17:35
  But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.