Acts 17:17

Therefore disputed( reasoned) he in the synagogue Going first to the Jews, and naturally expecting sympathy from them in his excitement against idolatry.

the devout persons As before, the proselytes of the gate. Cp. Acts 13:50, and above Acts 17:4.

and in the market daily One cannot but be reminded of the way in which Socrates some centuries earlier had thus gone about in the same city seizing eagerly on every one who would listen, and trying, according to his light, to shew them higher things, to open their eyes that they might discern between real knowledge and conceit without knowledge.