¹³ And we also [especially] thank God continually for this, that when you received the message of God [which you heard] from us, you welcomed it not as the word of [mere] men, but as it truly is, the Word of God, which is effectually at work in you who believe [^[a]exercising its superhuman power in those who adhere to and trust in and rely on it].

²⁰ Now among those who went up to worship at the Feast were some Greeks.