Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: 1Th 1:1Php 4:162Th 1:1Act 20:42Ti 4:10Act 17:11Act 17:13Act 27:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, Act 18:4Act 9:20Act 13:5Act 14:1Act 17:10Act 17:17Isa 1:18Luk 4:16 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. Act 18:28Act 9:22Luk 24:321Co 15:3-41Th 1:5-6Act 3:18Gal 3:1Luk 24:46 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. Act 17:12Act 13:43Act 14:42Co 8:5Act 13:50Act 15:22Act 28:242Co 6:17-18
¶ 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. Act 17:13Gal 5:261Th 2:14-16Act 14:2Act 17:7Gal 5:21Rom 16:211Co 3:3 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; Act 24:5Act 16:19-21Act 28:22Luk 23:5Act 21:28-311Ki 18:17-18Act 18:12-13Act 22:22-23 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cæsar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. Luk 23:2Act 16:21Jhn 19:121Pe 2:15Act 25:8-11Dan 3:12Dan 6:13Ezr 4:12-15 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. Jhn 11:48Mat 2:3 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go. Act 17:5
¶ And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. 1Th 2:2Act 17:13-14Act 17:2Act 20:4Act 9:251Sa 19:12-171Sa 20:42Act 14:6-7 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. Isa 34:16Pro 2:1-5Jhn 5:391Th 2:131Pe 1:10-12Mat 13:232Pe 1:19-21Pro 9:9 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. Eph 5:14Act 13:50Act 14:11Co 1:26Act 17:2-4Act 13:46Jas 1:10Jas 1:21 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. 1Th 2:14-16Act 14:2Act 17:5Act 21:27Act 6:12Mat 23:13Pro 28:251Ki 21:25 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still. Act 17:10Mat 10:23Act 16:1Act 9:25Act 9:301Ti 1:3Act 15:22Act 19:22 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. 1Th 3:1Act 18:5Act 18:12Ti 4:10-11Tit 3:122Ti 4:20-21Act 15:3Act 17:16
¶ Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Psa 119:1582Pe 2:7Exo 32:19-20Psa 119:136Jer 20:9Job 32:18-20Mic 3:8Mrk 3:5 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. Act 13:16Act 14:1-4Act 17:2-4Act 9:20Luk 12:3Mat 5:1-2Mrk 16:15Pro 1:20-22 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, 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. 1Co 1:20-211Co 3:181Co 4:10Act 4:2Col 2:8Luk 11:531Co 15:3-4Act 17:31-32 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? Mrk 1:27Act 17:22Act 24:24Act 25:221Jn 2:7-8Act 17:20Act 26:1Jhn 13:34 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 1Co 1:231Co 2:14Hos 8:121Co 1:181Pe 4:4Act 10:17Act 2:12Heb 5:11 (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.) 2Ti 2:16-17Col 4:5Eph 5:161Ti 5:132Th 3:11-12
¶ Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. Act 25:19Act 17:16Act 19:35Jer 10:2-3Jer 50:38 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. Gal 4:8-9Jhn 4:22Jhn 17:3Jhn 17:25Act 17:301Co 1:211Ti 1:172Th 2:4 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; 1Ki 8:27Deu 10:14Act 7:48Isa 66:12Ch 6:18Mat 11:25Psa 115:162Ch 2:6 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; Psa 50:8-13Gen 2:7Isa 42:5Act 17:28Job 33:4Rom 11:35Job 22:2Job 35:6-7 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; Deu 32:7-8Gen 3:20Mal 2:10Rom 5:12-191Co 15:221Co 15:47Job 12:23Job 14:5 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: Jer 23:23-24Deu 4:7Act 14:17Rom 1:20Act 15:17Psa 19:1-6Rom 2:4Psa 139:1-13 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. Job 12:10Col 1:17Heb 1:3Psa 36:9Luk 20:38Jhn 11:25Jhn 5:26Psa 66:9 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. Isa 40:25Exo 20:4Isa 46:5-6Psa 115:4-8Hab 2:19-20Jer 10:4-10Rom 1:20-23Psa 106:20 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Act 14:16Tit 2:11-12Luk 24:47Rom 3:25Act 26:17-20Eph 4:17-321Pe 4:31Pe 1:14-15 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. 2Pe 3:7Mat 25:31-46Rom 2:162Co 5:10Psa 9:8Psa 98:91Co 4:51Co 15:3-8
¶ And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. Act 17:18Act 26:81Co 4:102Co 6:2Act 2:13Act 24:25Act 25:192Ch 36:16 So Paul departed from among them. Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. Act 17:19Rom 11:5-6Act 13:48Act 17:4Act 17:22Isa 55:10-11Jhn 19:38-42Jhn 7:48-52