DAY 18
AC-16:34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat
before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
AC-16:35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants,
saying, Let those men go.
AC-16:36 And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The
magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in
peace.
AC-16:37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly
uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast [us] into prison; and now
do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come
themselves and fetch us out.
AC-16:38 And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates:
and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
AC-16:39 And they came and besought them, and brought [them] out,
and desired [them] to depart out of the city.
AC-16:40 And they went out of the prison, and entered into [the
house of] Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted
them, and departed.
*AC-17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia,
they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
AC-17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three
sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
AC-17:3 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.
AC-17:4 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.
AC-17:5 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.
AC-17:6 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;
AC-17:7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the
decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, [one] Jesus.
AC-17:8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city,
when they heard these things.
AC-17:9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the
other, they let them go.
AC-17:10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by
night unto Berea: who coming [thither] went into the synagogue of
the Jews.
AC-17:11 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.
AC-17:12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women
which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
AC-17:13 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.
AC-17:14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as
it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
AC-17:15 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.
AC-17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was
stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
AC-17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and
with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met
with him.
AC-17:18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the
Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say?
other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because
he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
AC-17:19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying,
May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, [is]?
AC-17:20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we
would know therefore what these things mean.
AC-17:21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there
spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear
some new thing.)
AC-17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, [Ye]
men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too
superstitious.
AC-17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an
altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye
ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
AC-17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing
that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made
with hands;
AC-17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he
needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all
things;
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