Acts 17:1
Now (1) when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: (1) The casting out of Silas and Paul was the saving of many others.... [ Continue Reading ]
Now (1) when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: (1) The casting out of Silas and Paul was the saving of many others.... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) 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. (2) Christ is therefore the mediator, because he was crucified and rose again: and he is certainly not to be rejected because the cross is shameful.... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain (a) 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. (3) Although the zeal of the unfaithful seems eve... [ 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 (b) world upside down are come hither also; (b) Into whatever country and place they come, they cause sedition and tumult.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when they had taken (c) security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go. (c) When Jason had put them in good assurance that they would appear.... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming [thither] went into the synagogue of the Jews. (4) That is indeed the wisdom of the Spirit which always sets the glory of God before itself as a mark with which it directs itself, and never wavers from it.... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) These were more (d) 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. (5) The Lord sets out in one short period of time, and in one people, different examples of his unsearchable wisdom t... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) 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. (6) Satan has his who are zealous for him, and those who one would least suspect.... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still. (7) There is neither counsel, nor fury, nor madness against the Lord.... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) And they that conducted Paul (e) brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed. (8) The sheep of Christ also watch their pastor's health and safety, but yet in the Lord. (e) It is not for nothing that the Jews of... [ Continue Reading ]
(9) Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was (f) stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to (g) idolatry. (9) In comparing the wisdom of God with man's wisdom, men scoff and mock at that which they do not understand: and God uses the curiosity of fools to gather together h... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with (h) them that met with him. (h) Whoever Paul met with that would allow him to talk with him, he reasoned with him, so thoroughly did he burn with the zeal of God's glory.... [ Continue Reading ]
(10) Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this (i) babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. (10) Two special sects of the philosophers se... [ Continue Reading ]
And they took him, and brought him unto (k) Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, [is]? (k) This was a place called, as one would say, Mars hill, where the judges sat who were called Areopagita upon important matters, who in ancient time arraigned Socrates, a... [ Continue Reading ]
(11) (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.) (11) The wisdom of man is vanity.... [ Continue Reading ]
(12) Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, [Ye] men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too (l) superstitious. (12) The idolaters themselves provide most strong and forcible arguments against their own superstition. (l) To stand in too foolish and slavish a fear of your... [ Continue Reading ]
For as I passed by, and beheld your (m) devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE (n) UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. (m) Whatever men worship for religion's sake, that we call religion. (n) Pausanias in his Atticis makes mention of the al... [ Continue Reading ]
(13) 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; (13) It is a most foolish and vain thing to compare the Creator with the creature, to limit him within a place who can be comprehended in no place, and to think... [ Continue Reading ]
(14) And hath made of (o) 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; (14) God is wonderful in all his works, but especially in the work of man: not that we should stand amazed at his wor... [ Continue Reading ]
That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might (p) feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: (p) For as blind men we could not seek out God except by groping, before the true light came and enlightened the world.... [ 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, (q) graven by art and man's device. (q) Which things (gold, silver, and stones) are custom engraved as much as a man's mind can devise, for men will not worship those things... [ Continue Reading ]
(15) And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (15) The oldness of the error does not excuse those that err, but it commends and sets forth the patience of God, who nonetheless will be a just judge to those who condemn him.... [ 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 (r) assurance unto all [men], in that he hath raised him from the dead. (r) By declaring Christ to be the judge of the world through the resurrection f... [ Continue Reading ]
(16) And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this [matter]. (16) Men, to show forth their vanity, are affected and moved differently by the very same Gospel, which nonetheless does not cease to be effectual in the elect.... [ Continue Reading ]