17 1 Paul at Thessalonica 3 preaching Christ, 6, 7 is entertained of Jason: 10 He is sent to Berea: 15 from thence coming to Athens, 19 in Mars’ street 23 he preacheth the living God to them unknown, 34 and so many are converted unto Christ.

¹ Now ^[a]as they passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a Synagogue of the Jews.

² And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days disputed with them by the Scriptures,

^3 [b]Opening, and alleging that Christ must have suffered, and risen again from the dead, and this is Jesus Christ, whom said he, I preach to you.

⁴ And some of them believed, and joined in company with Paul and Silas: also of the Grecians that feared God a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

^5 [c]But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain ^[d]vagabonds and wicked fellows, and when they had assembled the multitude, they made a tumult in the city, and made assault against the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

⁶ But when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the heads of the city, crying, These are they which have subverted the state of the ^[e]world, and here they are,

⁷ Whom Jason hath received, and these all do against the decrees of Caesar, saying, that there is another King one Jesus.

⁸ Then they troubled the people, and the heads of the city, when they heard these things.

⁹ Notwithstanding when they had received sufficient ^[f]assurance of Jason and of the others, they let them go.

^10 [g]And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea, which when they were come thither, entered into the Synagogue of the Jews.

^11 [h]These were also more ^[i]noble men than they which were at Thessalonica, which received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

¹² Therefore many of them believed, and of honest women, which were Grecians, and men not a few.

¹³ ¶ ^[j]But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew, that the word of God was also preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and moved the people.

^14 [k]But by and by the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timothy abode there still.

^15 [l]And they that did conduct Paul, ^[m]brought him unto Athens: and when they had received a commandment unto Silas and Timothy that they should come to him at once, they departed.

¹⁶ ¶ ^[n]Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was ^[o]stirred in him, when he saw the city subject to ^[p]idolatry.

¹⁷ Therefore he disputeth in the Synagogue with the Jews, and with them that were religious, and in the market daily with ^[q]whomsoever he met.

^18 [r]Then certain Philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, disputed with him, and some said, What will this ^[s]babbler say? Others said, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods (because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.)

¹⁹ And they took him, and brought him into ^[t]Mars’ street, saying, May we not know, what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

²⁰ For thou bringest certain strange things unto our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

^21 [u]For all the Athenians and strangers which dwelt there, gave themselves to nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some news.

^22 [v]Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ street, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too ^[w]superstitious.

²³ For as I passed by, and beheld your ^[x]devotions, I found an altar wherein was written, UNTO THE ^[y]UNKNOWN GOD. Whom ye then ignorantly worship, him show I unto you.

^24 [z]God that made the world, and all things that are therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, ^(A)dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

^25 (B)Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things,

^26 [aa]And hath made of ^[ab]one blood all mankind, to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath assigned the seasons which were ordained before, and the bounds of their habitation,

²⁷ That they should seek the Lord, if so be they might have ^[ac]groped after him, and found him, though doubtless he be not far from every one of us.

²⁸ For in him we live, and move, and have our being, as also certain of your own Poets have said: For we are also his generation.

^29 (C)Forasmuch then, as we are the generation of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone ^[ad]graven by art and the invention of man.

^30 [ae]And the time of this ignorance God regarded not: but now he admonisheth all men everywhere to repent.

³¹ Because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath appointed, whereof he hath given an ^[af]assurance to all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

^32 [ag]Now when they had heard of the resurrection from the dead, some mocked, and others said, We will hear thee again of this thing.

³³ And so Paul departed from among them.

³⁴ Howbeit certain men clave unto Paul, and believed: among whom was also Dionysius Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.