Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. 1Th 1:1Php 4:162Th 1:1Act 20:42Ti 4:10Act 17:11Act 17:13Act 27:2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, Act 18:4Act 9:20Act 13:5Act 14:1Act 17:10Act 17:17Isa 1:18Luk 4:16 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 Christ.” Act 18:28Act 9:22Luk 24:321Co 15:3-41Th 1:5-6Act 3:18Gal 3:1Luk 24:46
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. Act 17:12Act 13:43Act 14:42Co 8:5Act 13:50Act 15:22Act 28:242Co 6:17-18 But the unpersuaded Jews took along 1 some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they 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 When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers 2 before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here 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 has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!” Luk 23:2Act 16:21Jhn 19:121Pe 2:15Act 25:8-11Dan 3:12Dan 6:13Ezr 4:12-15 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things. Jhn 11:48Mat 2:3 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. Act 17:5
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. 1Th 2:2Act 17:13-14Act 17:2Act 20:4Act 9:251Sa 19:12-171Sa 20:42Act 14:6-7
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 whether these things were so. Isa 34:16Pro 2:1-5Jhn 5:391Th 2:131Pe 1:10-12Mat 13:232Pe 1:19-21Pro 9:9 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men. 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 proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes. 1Th 2:14-16Act 14:2Act 17:5Act 21:27Act 6:12Mat 23:13Pro 28:251Ki 21:25 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there. Act 17:10Mat 10:23Act 16:1Act 9:25Act 9:301Ti 1:3Act 15:22Act 19:22 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 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 provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols. Psa 119:1582Pe 2:7Exo 32:19-20Psa 119:136Jer 20:9Job 32:18-20Mic 3:8Mrk 3:5 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him. Act 13:16Act 14:1-4Act 17:2-4Act 9:20Luk 12:3Mat 5:1-2Mrk 16:15Pro 1:20-22 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also 3 were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” 1Co 1:20-211Co 3:181Co 4:10Act 4:2Col 2:8Luk 11:531Co 15:3-4Act 17:31-32
Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
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? Mrk 1:27Act 17:22Act 24:24Act 25:221Jn 2:7-8Act 17:20Act 26:1Jhn 13:34 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.” 1Co 1:231Co 2:14Hos 8:121Co 1:181Pe 4:4Act 10:17Act 2:12Heb 5:11 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. 2Ti 2:16-17Col 4:5Eph 5:161Ti 5:132Th 3:11-12
Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things. Act 25:19Act 17:16Act 19:35Jer 10:2-3Jer 50:38 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 worship in ignorance, I announce to you. Gal 4:8-9Jhn 4:22Jhn 17:3Jhn 17:25Act 17:301Co 1:211Ti 1:172Th 2:4 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. 1Ki 8:27Deu 10:14Act 7:48Isa 66:12Ch 6:18Mat 11:25Psa 115:162Ch 2:6 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. Psa 50:8-13Gen 2:7Isa 42:5Act 17:28Job 33:4Rom 11:35Job 22:2Job 35:6-7 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 dwellings, 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 perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each 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, move, and have our being.’ As some 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 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. Isa 40:25Exo 20:4Isa 46:5-6Psa 115:4-8Hab 2:19-20Jer 10:4-10Rom 1:20-23Psa 106:20 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent, Act 14:16Tit 2:11-12Luk 24:47Rom 3:25Act 26:17-20Eph 4:17-321Pe 4:31Pe 1:14-15 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 all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.” 2Pe 3:7Mat 25:31-46Rom 2:162Co 5:10Psa 9:8Psa 98:91Co 4:51Co 15:3-8
Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.” Act 17:18Act 26:81Co 4:102Co 6:2Act 2:13Act 24:25Act 25:192Ch 36:16
Thus Paul went out from among them. But certain men joined with him and believed, including 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