Acts, Chapter 17
{17:1} Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia,
they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Yehudim.
{17:2} Sha'ul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three
Shabbat days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, {17:3} explaining
and demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from
the dead, and saying, "This Yeshua, whom I proclaim to you, is the
Messiah."
{17:4} Some of them were persuaded, and joined Sha'ul and Sila, of
the devout Yevanim a great multitude, and not a few of the chief
women. {17:5} But the disobedient Yehudim took along some wicked men
from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an
uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out
to the people. {17:6} When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason
and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who
have turned the world upside down have come here also, {17:7} whom
Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar,
saying that there is another king, Yeshua!" {17:8} The multitude and
the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
{17:9} When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let
them go. {17:10} The brothers immediately sent Sha'ul and Sila away by
night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Yehudi
synagogue.
{17:11} Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in
that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining
the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. {17:12} Many
of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Yevanit women, and
not a few men. {17:13} But when the Yehudim of Thessalonica had
knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Sha'ul at Beroea
also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes. {17:14} Then
the brothers immediately sent out Sha'ul to go as far as to the sea,
and Sila and Timothy still stayed there. {17:15} But those who
escorted Sha'ul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a
[1>]mitzvah[<1] to Sila and Timothy that they should come to him very
quickly, they departed.
{17:16} Now while Sha'ul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was
provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols. {17:17} So he
reasoned in the synagogue with the Yehudim and the devout persons, and
in the marketplace every day with those who met him. {17:18} Some of
the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him.
Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?"
Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he
preached Yeshua and the resurrection.
{17:19} They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus,
saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by
you? {17:20} For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want
to know therefore what these things mean." {17:21} Now all the
Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing
else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
{17:22} Sha'ul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You
men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
{17:23} For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your
worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN
GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
{17:24} The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being
Lord of heaven and [2>]eretz[<2], doesn't dwell in temples made with
hands, {17:25} neither is he served by men's hands, as though he
needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and
all things. {17:26} He made from one blood every nation of men to
dwell on all the surface of the [3>]eretz[<3], having determined
appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings, {17:27} that
they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and
find him, though he is not far from each one of us. {17:28} 'For in
him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets
have said, 'For we are also his offspring.' {17:29} Being then the
offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like
gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man. {17:30}
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands
that all people everywhere should repent, {17:31} because he has
appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by
the man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance to all
men, in that he has raised him from the dead."
{17:32} Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some
mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."
{17:33} Thus Sha'ul went out from among them. {17:34} But certain
men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the
Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
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Footnotes:
[1] {17:15} commandment
[2] {17:24} earth
[3] {17:26} earth
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