ACV - Acts - 17

17:1  Now after passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

17:2  And according to Paul's custom, he went in to them, and for three sabbaths he discoursed with them from the scriptures,

17:3  explaining and pointing out that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead, and, This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.

17:4  And some of them were persuaded, and joined with Paul and Silas, and of the devout Greeks a great quantity, and of the prominent women not a few.

17:5  But the disobedient Jews having taken along certain evil men of the marketplaces, and having gathered a mob, were rioting the city. And having stood by the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the populace.

17:6  And not having found them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the city rulers, shouting, The men who have agitated the world, these are present here also,

17:7  whom Jason has received. And all these men are acting against the decrees of Caesar, asserting another man to be king, Jesus.

17:8  And they disturbed the multitude and the city rulers when they heard these things.

17:9  And after taking bond from Jason and the other men, they released them.

17:10  And the brothers straightaway sent both Paul and Silas away through the night to Berea, who, when they arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

17:11  But these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, examining the scriptures daily, if it has these things this way.

17:12  Indeed therefore many of them believed, also of the prominent Greek women, and of men, not a few.

17:13  But when the Jews of Thessalonica also learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there also, agitating the crowds.

17:14  But then straightaway the brothers sent Paul away to go as far as to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy remained there.

17:15  And those who brought Paul led him as far as Athens. And after taking a command for Silas and Timothy, that they should come to him quickly, they departed.

17:16  But while Paul waited for them in Athens, his spirit was aroused within him, seeing the city being completely idolatrous.

17:17  Indeed therefore he was discoursing in the synagogue with the Jews, and with those who worship, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened by.

17:18  And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, Whatever does this babbler want to say? But others, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities, because he brought the good news-Jesus and the resurrection.

17:19  And having taken him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, Can we understand what this new doctrine is, being spoken by thee?

17:20  For thou bring some surprising things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know whatever these things aim to be.

17:21  Now all the Athenians, and the foreigners who dwell alien there, were at leisure in nothing else, than to tell or to hear something new.

17:22  And having stood in the middle of the Areopagus, Paul said, Athenian men, I perceive you as deity-fearing in all things.

17:23  For, passing through and examining your religious objects, I also found an altar on which had been engraved, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye worship unknowingly, him I proclaim to you.

17:24  The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands,

17:25  nor is he served by the hands of men, as needing anything, since he himself gives to all life, and breath, with all things.

17:26  And he made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined prescribed times, and the limits of their occupancy,

17:27  to search for the Lord, if indeed perhaps they might grope for him and find him, although being not far from each one of us.

17:28  For in him we live, and move, and exist, as also some of the performers from you have said, For of him we are also offspring.

17:29  Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not think the Divine to be like gold, or silver, or stone handiwork of the skill and thought of man.

17:30  Indeed therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands for all men everywhere to repent.

17:31  Because he appointed a day during which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he appointed, having provided assurance to all men because he raised him from the dead.

17:32  But when they heard the resurrection of the dead, of course they mocked, but others said, We will hear thee again about this.

17:33  And so Paul departed from among them.

17:34  But some men, having joined with him, believed, among whom was also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.