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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 322, 18 November 2025   
      
   1) Acts 17, Acts 18:1-23   
      
   Acts 17:1-15   
      
   The Uproar in Thessalonica   
      
   1 (Php 4:16; 1Th 1:1) When they had traveled through Amphipolis   
   and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was   
   a synagogue of the Jews.   
   2 (Ac 9:20; Lk 4:16) According to his custom, Paul went in,   
   and on three Sabbaths he lectured to them from the Scriptures,   
   3 (Ac 9:22; 18:28) explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer   
   and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I preach to you,   
   is the Christ."   
   4 (Ac 14:4; 15:22) Some of them were persuaded and joined with Paul and Silas,   
   including a great crowd of devout Greeks and many leading women.   
   5 (Ac 17:13; Ro 16:21) But the Jews who did not believe became jealous   
   and, taking some evil men from the marketplace, gathered a crowd,   
   stirred up the city, and attacked the house of Jason,   
   trying to bring them out to the mob.   
   6 (Ac 24:5; 28:22) But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason   
   and some brothers to the city officials, crying out, "These men who have   
   turned the world upside down have come here also,   
   7 (Lk 23:2; Jn 19:12) and Jason has received them. They are all acting   
   contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus."   
   8 They troubled the crowd and the city officials   
   when they heard these things.   
   9 When they had taken a bail payment from Jason and the rest,   
   they released them.   
      
   [1] Now when they had 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   
   reasoned with them out of the scriptures,   
   [3] Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen   
   again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.   
   [4] And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the   
   devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.   
   [5] But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain   
   lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city   
   on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out   
   to the people.   
   [6] And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto   
   the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down   
   are come hither also;   
   [7] Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of   
   Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.   
   [8] And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard   
   these things.   
   [9] And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let   
   them go.   
      
   The Apostles in Berea   
      
   10 (Ac 17:13-14; 20:4) The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas   
   away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into   
   the synagogue of the Jews.   
   11 (Jn 5:39; Isa 34:16) These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,   
   for they received the word with all eagerness,   
   daily examining the Scriptures, to find out if these things were so.   
   12 (Ac 13:50) Therefore many of them believed,   
   including honorable Greek women and many Greek men.   
   13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God   
   was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also, stirring up the crowds.   
   14 (Ac 17:10; Mt 10:23) The brothers immediately sent Paul away to the sea.   
   But Silas and Timothy remained there.   
   15 (Ac 18:1; 18:5) Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens   
   and departed with instructions for Silas and Timothy to come to him quickly.   
      
   [10] And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto   
   Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.   
   [11] These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received   
   the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily,   
   whether those things were so.   
   [12] Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were   
   Greeks, and of men, not a few.   
   [13] But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God   
   was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the   
   people.   
   [14] And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to   
   the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.   
   [15] And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a   
   commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they   
   departed.   
      
   Paul in Athens   
      
   16 While Paul waited for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him   
   as he saw that the city was full of idols.   
   17 Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout   
   persons, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to there.   
   18 (Ac 4:2) Then some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him.   
   And some said, "What will this babbler say?" Others said,   
   "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,"   
   because he preached Jesus and the resurrection to them.   
   19 (Mk 1:27; Ac 17:22) They took hold of him and led him to the Areopagus,   
   saying, "May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak?   
   20 (Hos 8:12; 1Pe 4:4) For you are bringing strange things to our ears.   
   Therefore we want to know what these things mean."   
   21 For all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time   
   in nothing else, but either telling or hearing something new.   
   22 (Ac 25:19) Then Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said:   
   "Men of Athens, I ­perceive that in all things you are very religious.   
   23 (Jn 4:22; Ac 17:30) For as I passed by and looked up at your objects   
   of worship, I found an altar with this inscription:   
   TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.   
   Whom you therefore unknowingly worship, Him I proclaim to you.   
   24 (Mt 11:25; Ac 7:48) "God who made the world and all things in it,   
   being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by hands.   
   25 (Job 22:2; Ge 2:7) Nor is He served by men's hands,   
   as though He needed anything, since He gives all men life and breath   
   and all things.   
   26 (Mal 2:10; Ge 3:20) He has made from one blood every nation of men   
   to live on the entire face of the earth, having appointed fixed times   
   and the boundaries of their habitation,   
   27 (Ac 14:17; Jer 23:23-24) that they should seek the Lord so perhaps   
   they might reach for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each   
   one of us.   
   28 (Job 12:10; Da 5:23) 'For in Him we live and move and have our being.'   
   As some of your own poets have said, 'We are His offspring.'   
   29 "Therefore since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose   
   that the Deity is like gold or silver or stone or an engraved work of art   
   or an image of the reflection of man.   
   30 (Lk 24:47; Ac 14:16) God overlooked the times of ignorance,   
   but now He commands all men everywhere to repent.   
      
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