explaining and demonstrating that it was necessary for the Christ[a] to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.”[b] And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, and also a large number of God-fearing Greeks and not a few of the prominent women.

But the Jews were filled with jealousy and, taking along some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace and forming a mob, threw the city into an uproar. And attacking Jason’s house, they were looking for them to bring them[c] out to the popular assembly.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:3 Or “Messiah”
  2. Acts 17:3 Or “Messiah”
  3. Acts 17:5 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation