Acts 15:27 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Acts 15:32 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

³² Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, ^[a]encouraged and strengthened the brethren with a lengthy message.

Acts 15:40 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

⁴⁰ But Paul chose Silas and left, being committed by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.

Acts 16:19 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

¹⁹ But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was ^[a]gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the authorities,

Acts 16:25 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

²⁵ But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

Acts 16:29 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

²⁹ And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas,

Acts 17:4 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

⁴ And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, ^[a]along with a large number of the God-fearing Greeks and ^[b]a number of the leading women.

Acts 17:10 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Paul at Berea

¹⁰ The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, ^[a]and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

Acts 17:14-34 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

¹⁴ Then immediately the brethren sent Paul out to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there. ¹⁵ Now those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.

Paul at Athens

¹⁶ Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols. ¹⁷ So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present. ¹⁸ And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were ^[a]conversing with him. Some were saying, “What would this ^[b]idle babbler wish to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹ And they took him and brought him ^[c]to the ^[d]Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is ^[e]which you are proclaiming? ²⁰ For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.” ²¹ (Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)

Sermon on Mars Hill

²² So Paul stood in the midst of the ^[f]Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. ²³ For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. ²⁴ The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; ²⁵ nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; ²⁶ and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, ²⁷ that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; ²⁸ for in Him we live and move and ^[g]exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’ ²⁹ Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. ³⁰ Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, ³¹ because He has fixed a day in which He will judge ^[h]the world in righteousness ^[i]through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men ^[j]by raising Him from the dead.”

³² Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, “We shall hear you ^[k]again concerning this.” ³³ So Paul went out of their midst. ³⁴ But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.