Acts 17

1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.Cross-references: Acts 14:1 · Acts 15:21 · Acts 16:13 · Acts 17:11 · Acts 17:13 · Acts 20:4 · +5 more

2Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,Cross-references: 1Sam 12:7 · Isa 1:18 · Luke 4:16 · John 18:20 · Acts 8:35 · Acts 9:20 · +10 more

3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”Cross-references: Luke 24:26 · Luke 24:32 · Luke 24:44 · Luke 24:46 · John 20:9 · Acts 1:4 · +9 more

4Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.Cross-references: Prov 9:6 · Prov 13:20 · Song 1:7 · Song 6:1 · Zech 2:11 · Zech 8:20 · +23 more

5But the unpersuaded Jews 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.Cross-references: Judg 9:4 · Job 30:1 · Ps 35:15 · Ps 69:12 · Prov 14:30 · Isa 26:11 · +16 more

6When 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,Cross-references: Ex 3:8 · 1Ki 18:17 · Jer 38:2 · Amos 7:10 · Matt 24:14 · Luke 23:5 · +7 more

7whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”Cross-references: Ezra 4:12 · Dan 3:12 · Dan 6:13 · Luke 23:2 · John 19:12 · Acts 16:21 · +2 more

8The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.Cross-references: Matt 2:3 · John 11:48

9When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.Cross-references: Acts 17:5

10The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.Cross-references: Josh 2:15 · 1Sam 19:12 · 1Sam 20:42 · Acts 9:25 · Acts 14:6 · Acts 17:2 · +4 more

11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.Cross-references: Job 23:12 · Ps 1:2 · Ps 119:97 · Ps 119:100 · Ps 119:148 · Prov 1:5 · +25 moreExamined: Jehovah's Witnesses →

12Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.Cross-references: Ps 25:8 · John 1:45 · John 7:17 · Acts 13:46 · Acts 13:50 · Acts 14:1 · +5 more

13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:25 · Prov 15:18 · Prov 28:25 · Matt 23:13 · Luke 12:51 · Acts 6:12 · +4 more

14Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.Cross-references: Josh 2:16 · Matt 10:23 · Acts 9:25 · Acts 9:30 · Acts 15:22 · Acts 16:1 · +5 more

15But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.Cross-references: Acts 15:3 · Acts 17:16 · Acts 17:21 · Acts 18:1 · Acts 18:5 · 1Thess 3:1 · +3 more

16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.Cross-references: Ex 32:19 · Num 25:6 · 1Ki 19:10 · 1Ki 19:14 · Job 32:2 · Job 32:18 · +9 more

17So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.Cross-references: Prov 1:20 · Prov 8:1 · Prov 8:34 · Jer 6:11 · Matt 5:1 · Mark 16:15 · +9 more

18Some 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 Jesus and the resurrection.Cross-references: Prov 23:9 · Prov 26:12 · Mark 9:14 · Luke 11:53 · Acts 4:2 · Acts 6:9 · +9 more

19They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?Cross-references: Matt 10:18 · Mark 1:27 · John 13:34 · Acts 17:20 · Acts 17:22 · Acts 24:24 · +3 more

20For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”Cross-references: Hos 8:12 · Matt 19:23 · Mark 9:10 · Mark 10:24 · John 6:60 · John 7:35 · +7 more

21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.Cross-references: Eph 5:16 · Col 4:5 · 2Thess 3:11 · 1Tim 5:13 · 2Tim 2:16

22Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.Cross-references: Jer 10:2 · Jer 50:38 · Acts 17:16 · Acts 19:35 · Acts 25:19

23For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.Cross-references: Ps 50:21 · Ps 147:20 · Matt 15:9 · John 4:22 · John 8:54 · John 17:3 · +12 more

24The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.Cross-references: Gen 14:19 · Gen 14:22 · Deut 10:14 · 1Ki 8:27 · 2Ki 19:15 · 2Chr 2:6 · +27 more

25He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Num 16:22 · Num 27:16 · Job 12:10 · Job 22:2 · Job 27:3 · +17 more

26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,Cross-references: Gen 3:20 · Gen 9:19 · Deut 32:7 · Job 12:23 · Job 14:5 · Ps 31:15 · +10 more

27that 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.Cross-references: Deut 4:7 · 1Ki 8:27 · Ps 19:1 · Ps 139:1 · Jer 23:23 · Acts 14:17 · +3 more

28‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’Cross-references: 1Sam 25:29 · Job 12:10 · Ps 36:9 · Ps 66:9 · Dan 5:23 · Luke 3:38 · +7 more

29Being 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.Cross-references: Ex 20:4 · Ex 32:4 · Ps 94:7 · Ps 106:20 · Ps 115:4 · Isa 40:12 · +6 more

30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,Cross-references: Ps 50:21 · Matt 3:2 · Matt 4:17 · Mark 1:15 · Mark 6:12 · Luke 13:5 · +18 more

31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”Cross-references: Ps 9:8 · Ps 96:13 · Ps 98:9 · Matt 10:15 · Matt 25:31 · Luke 24:46 · +18 more

32Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”Cross-references: Gen 19:14 · 2Chr 30:9 · 2Chr 36:16 · Luke 14:18 · Luke 22:63 · Luke 23:11 · +15 more

33Thus Paul went out from among them.

34But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.Cross-references: Isa 55:10 · Matt 20:16 · John 7:48 · John 19:38 · Acts 13:48 · Acts 17:4 · +4 more