Acts 17 (NET)

Acts 17:1¹After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:2²Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:3³explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying, “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:4⁴Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:5⁵But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:6⁶When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming, “These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:7⁷and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar’s decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:8⁸They caused confusion among the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:9⁹After the city officials had received bail from Jason and the others, they released them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:10¹⁰The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:11¹¹These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:12¹²Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:13¹³But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:14¹⁴Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:15¹⁵Those who accompanied Paul escorted him as far as Athens, and after receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:16¹⁶While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was greatly upset because he saw the city was full of idols.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:17¹⁷So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:18¹⁸Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, “What does this foolish babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.” (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:19¹⁹So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:20²⁰For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:21²¹(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:22²²So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:23²³For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:24²⁴The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:25²⁵nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:26²⁶From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:27²⁷so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:28²⁸For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:29²⁹So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:30³⁰Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:31³¹because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:32³²Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:33³³So Paul left the Areopagus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Acts 17:34³⁴But some people joined him and believed. Among them were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions