Then Paul, as his custom was, (A)went in to them, and for three Sabbaths (B)reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and demonstrating (C)that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.” (D)And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and (E)Silas.

Assault on Jason’s House

But the Jews [a]who were not persuaded, [b]becoming (F)envious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of (G)Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, (H)“These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:5 NU omits who were not persuaded
  2. Acts 17:5 M omits becoming envious

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