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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. 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. 16 Now while Paul wait­ed for them at Athens, his spir­it was stirred in him, when he saw the city whol­ly giv­en to idol­a­try. 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. 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. 19 And they took him, and brought him unto Are­opa­gus, say­ing, May we know what this new doc­trine, where­of thou speak­est, is? 20 For thou bringest cer­tain strange things to our ears: we would know there­fore what these things mean. 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.) 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. 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. 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; 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; 26 And hath made of one blood all na­tions of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath de­ter­mined the times be­fore ap­point­ed, and the bounds of their habi­ta­tion; 27 That they should seek the Lord, if hap­ly they might feel af­ter him, and find him, though he be not far from ev­ery one of us: 28 For in him we live, and move, and have our be­ing; as cer­tain also of your own po­ets have said, For we are also his off­spring. 29 Foras­much then as we are the off­spring of God, we ought not to think that the God­head is like unto gold, or sil­ver, or stone, graven by art and man's de­vice. 30 And the times of this ig­no­rance God winked at; but now com­man­deth all men ev­ery where to re­pent: 31 Be­cause he hath ap­point­ed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righ­teous­ness by that man whom he hath or­dained; whereof he hath giv­en as­sur­ance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 32 And when they heard of the res­ur­rec­tion of the dead, some mocked: and oth­ers said, We will hear thee again of this matter. 33 So Paul de­part­ed from among them. 34 How­beit cer­tain men clave unto him, and be­lieved: among the which was Diony­sius the Are­opagite, and a wom­an named Damaris, and oth­ers with them.