Acts 17:1-4
PAUL AND SILAS IN THESSALONICA AND BEREA. Preaching at Thessalonica:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL AND SILAS IN THESSALONICA AND BEREA. Preaching at Thessalonica:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN THEY HAD PASSED THROUGH AMPHIPOLIS AND APOLLONIA, THEY CAME TO THESSALONICA, WHERE WAS A SYNAGOGUE OF THE JEWS;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PAUL, AS HIS MANNER WAS, WENT IN UNTO THEM, AND THREE SABBATH-DAYS REASONED WITH THEM OUT OF THE SCRIPTURES,... [ Continue Reading ]
OPENING AND ALLEGING THAT CHRIST MUST NEEDS HAVE SUFFERED AND RISEN AGAIN FROM THE DEAD; AND THAT THIS JESUS, WHOM I PREACH UNTO YOU, IS CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND 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. As the change of pronouns at this point indicates, Luke remained at Philippi, and it may be that Timothy remained there with him. There was much to be done in es... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE JEWS WHICH BELIEVED NOT, MOVED WITH ENVY, TOOK UNTO THEM CERTAIN LEWD FELLOWS OF THE BASER SORT, AND GATHERED A COMPANY, AND SET ALL THE CITY ON AN UPROAR; AND ASSAULTED THE HOUSE OF JASON, AND SOUGHT TO BRING THEM OUT TO THE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The tumult raised by the Jews:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY FOUND THEM NOT, THEY DREW JASON AND CERTAIN BRETHREN UNTO THE RULERS OF THE CITY, CRYING, THESE THAT HAVE TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN ARE COME HITHER ALSO;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOM JASON HATH RECEIVED; AND THESE ALL DO CONTRARY TO THE DECREES OF CAESAR, SAYING THAT THERE IS ANOTHER KING, ONE JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY TROUBLED THE PEOPLE AND THE RULERS OF THE CITY WHEN THEY HEARD THESE THINGS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD TAKEN SECURITY OF JASON AND OF THE OTHER, THEY LET THEM GO. The experience which Paul had had in Pisidian Antioch, chap. 13:50, was here repeated. The great mass of the Jews refused to believe his message, and these men became violently jealous, not only on account of the preaching... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE BRETHREN IMMEDIATELY SENT AWAY PAUL AND SILAS BY NIGHT UNTO BEREA, WHO, COMING THITHER, WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE OF THE JEWS.... [ Continue Reading ]
Preaching in Berea:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE MANY OF THEM BELIEVED; ALSO OF HONORABLE WOMEN WHICH WERE GREEKS, AND OF MEN, NOT A FEW.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THE JEWS OF THESSALONICA HAD KNOWLEDGE THAT THE WORD OF GOD WAS PREACHED OF PAUL AT BEREA, THEY CAME THITHER ALSO AND STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEN IMMEDIATELY THE BRETHREN SENT AWAY PAUL TO GO, AS IT WERE, TO THE SEA; BUT SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS ABODE THERE STILL. If Paul and Silas had continued their work in Thessalonica after the events of that day, they would not only have risked personal violence to themselves, but would also have cau... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY THAT CONDUCTED PAUL BROUGHT HIM UNTO ATHENS; AND RECEIVING A COMMANDMENT UNTO SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS FOR TO COME TO HIM WITH ALL SPEED, THEY DEPARTED.... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL IN ATHENS. The arrival and the first discussions:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, WHILE PAUL WAITED FOR THEM AT ATHENS, HIS SPIRIT WAS STIRRED IN HIM WHEN HE SAW THE CITY WHOLLY GIVEN TO IDOLATRY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE DISPUTED HE IN THE SYNAGOGUE WITH THE JEWS AND WITH THE DEVOUT PERSONS AND IN THE MARKET DAILY WITH THEM THAT MET WITH HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN CERTAIN PHILOSOPHERS OF THE EPICUREANS AND OF THE STOICS ENCOUNTERED HIM. AND SOME SAID, WHAT WILL THIS BABBLER SAY? OTHER SOME, HE SEEMETH TO BE A SETTER FORTH OF STRANGE GODS; BECAUSE HE PREACHED UNTO THEM JESUS AND THE RESURRECTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY TOOK HIM AND BROUGHT HIM UNTO AREOPAGUS, SAYING, MAY WE KNOW WHAT THIS NEW DOCTRINE, WHEREOF THOU SPEAKEST, IS?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THOU BRINGEST CERTAIN STRANGE THINGS TO OUR EARS; WE WOULD KNOW, THEREFORE, WHAT THESE THINGS MEAN.... [ Continue Reading ]
(FOR ALL THE ATHENIANS AND STRANGERS WHICH WERE THERE SPENT THEIR TIME IN NOTHING ELSE BUT EITHER TO TELL OR TO HEAR SOME NEW THING.) The solicitude of the Berean disciples would not permit them to leave their beloved teacher travel without an escort, and some of them therefore volunteered to accomp... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PAUL STOOD IN THE MIDST OF MARS HILL AND SAID, YE MEN OF ATHENS, I PERCEIVE THAT IN ALL THINGS YE ARE TOO SUPERSTITIOUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The first part of Paul's speech:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR 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 UNTO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD, THAT MADE THE WORLD AND ALL THINGS THEREIN, SEEING THAT HE IS LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, DWELLETH NOT IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS,... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER IS WORSHIPED WITH MEN'S HANDS, AS THOUGH HE NEEDED ANYTHING, SEEING HE GIVETH TO ALL LIFE AND BREATH AND ALL THINGS;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HATH MADE OF ONE BLOOD ALL NATIONS OF MEN FOR TO DWELL ON ALL THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND HATH DETERMINED THE TIMES BEFORE APPOINTED, AND THE BOUNDS OF THEIR HABITATION,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THEY SHOULD SEEK THE LORD, IF HAPLY THEY MIGHT FEEL AFTER HIM, AND FIND HIM, THOUGH HE BE NOT FAR FROM EVERY ONE OF US;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR 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. Paul had been placed by those men that conducted him and now stood in the midst of the Council, or Court, of Areopagus. "The Areopagus was, in ancient times, a judicial counc... [ Continue Reading ]
FORASMUCH, THEN, AS WE ARE THE OFFSPRING OF GOD, WE OUGHT NOT TO THINK THAT THE GODHEAD IS LIKE UNTO GOLD, OR SILVER, OR STONE, GRAVEN BY ART AND MAN'S DEVICE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The conclusion of Paul and the effect of his sermon:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE TIMES OF THIS IGNORANCE GOD WINKED AT, BUT NOW COMMANDETH ALL MEN EVERYWHERE TO REPENT,... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE HE HATH APPOINTED A DAY IN THE WHICH HE WILL JUDGE THE WORLD IN RIGHTEOUSNESS BY THAT MAN WHOM HE HATH ORDAINED; WHEREOF HE HATH GIVEN ASSURANCE UNTO ALL MEN IN THAT HE HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HEARD OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, SOME MOCKED; AND OTHERS SAID, WE WILL HEAR THEE AGAIN OF THIS MATTER.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO PAUL DEPARTED FROM AMONG THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOWBEIT, CERTAIN MEN CLAVE UNTO HIM AND BELIEVED, AMONG THE WHICH WAS DIONYSIUS, THE AREOPAGITE, AND A WOMAN NAMED DAMARIS, AND-OTHERS WITH THEM. If his hearers have kept the facts in mind concerning the essence of God and the relation of men to God, so the argument of Paul runs, and if they accept... [ Continue Reading ]