The Acts of the Emissaries, Chapter 17
{17:1} Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia,
they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. {17:2}
Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days
reasoned with them from the Scriptures, {17:3} explaining and
demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the
dead, and saying, "This Yeshua, whom I proclaim to you, is the
Messiah."
{17:4} 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.
{17:5} [1>]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. {17:6} When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason
and certain [2>]brothers[<2] before the rulers of the city, crying,
"These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
{17:7} whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees
of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Yeshua!" {17:8} The
multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard
these things. {17:9} When they had taken security from Jason and the
rest, they let them go. {17:10} The brothers immediately sent Paul and
Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the
Jewish synagogue.
{17:11} Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in
that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining
the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. {17:12} Many
of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not
a few men. {17:13} 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. {17:14} Then the brothers
immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and
Timothy still stayed there. {17:15} 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.
{17:16} Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was
provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols. {17:17} So he
reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in
the marketplace every day with those who met him. {17:18} Some of the
Epicurean and Stoic philosophers [3>]also[<3] were conversing with
him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?"
Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he
preached Yeshua and the resurrection.
{17:19} They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus,
saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by
you? {17:20} For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want
to know therefore what these things mean." {17:21} 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.
{17:22} Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You
men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
{17:23} For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your
worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN
GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
{17:24} 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,
{17:25} neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed
anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all
things. {17:26} 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, {17:27} 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. {17:28} 'For in him we live, and move,
and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are
also his offspring.' {17:29} 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. {17:30} The times of ignorance
therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people
everywhere should repent, {17:31} 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."
{17:32} Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some
mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."
{17:33} Thus Paul went out from among them. {17:34} But certain men
joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the
Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
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Footnotes:
[1] {17:5} TR reads "And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming
envious and taking along" instead of "But the unpersuaded Jews took
along"
[2] {17:6} The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows
may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
[3] {17:18} TR omits "also"
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