These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Acts 17
Brit Hadashah 33 verses
- 1 Then, passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they went to Thessalonica. Here there was a of the Jews.
- 2 —following his usual custom—betook himself to it, and for three successive Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
- 3 which he clearly explained, pointing out that it had been necessary for the to suffer and rise again from the dead, and insisting, “The whom I am announcing to you is the .”
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Some of the people were won over, and attached themselves to and Silas, including many -fearing Greeks and not a few gentlewomen of high rank.
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Acts 17:12 Acts 15:22 Acts 14:4 Acts 13:50 Acts 13:43 Acts 16:3 Acts 2:44 Acts 15:40 Proverbs 13:20 Song of Solomon 1:7-8 Acts 4:23 Zechariah 8:20-23 2 Corinthians 6:17-18 Acts 28:24 2 Corinthians 8:5 Acts 15:27 Acts 15:32 Acts 19:10 Song of Solomon 6:1 Acts 2:41-42 John 7:35 Proverbs 9:6 Acts 17:17 Acts 5:12-14 Acts 17:34 Acts 14:1 Zechariah 2:11 Acts 18:4 Acts 21:28 -
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But the jealousy of the Jews was aroused, and, calling to their aid some ill-conditioned and idle fellows, they got together a riotous mob and filled the city with uproar. They then attacked the house of Jason and searched for and Silas, to bring them out before the of people.
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- 6 But, failing to find them, they dragged Jason and some of the other brethren before the magistrates of the city, loudly accusing them. “These men,” they said, “who have raised a tumult throughout the Empire, have come here also.
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Jason has received them into his house; and they all set Caesar’s authority at defiance, declaring that there is another Emperor—one called .”
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Great was the excitement among the crowd, and among the magistrates of the city, when they heard these charges.
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They required Jason and the rest to find substantial bail, and after that they let them go.
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- 10 The brethren at once sent and Silas away by night to Beroea, and they, on their arrival, went to the of the Jews.
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The Jews at Beroea were of a nobler disposition than those in Thessalonica, for they very readily received the Message, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether it was as stated.
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John 5:39 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Isaiah 34:16 2 Peter 1:19-21 Psalm 119:97 Psalm 119:148 2 Timothy 3:15-17 Matthew 13:23 Luke 24:44 Proverbs 8:10 Proverbs 9:9 1 Peter 1:10-12 Psalm 1:2-3 Proverbs 2:1-5 Proverbs 1:5 Luke 16:29 Psalm 119:100 2 Thessalonians 2:10 Job 23:12 1 Thessalonians 1:6 Acts 2:41 1 John 4:5-6 James 1:21 1 Peter 2:2 John 1:45-49 Acts 11:1 John 3:21 Isaiah 8:20 Acts 17:1 Acts 10:33 Jeremiah 2:21 -
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As the result many of them became believers, and so did not a few of the Greeks—gentlewomen of good position, and men.
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As soon, however, as the Jews of Thessalonica learnt that Elohim’s Message had been proclaimed by at Beroea, they came there also, and incited the mob to a riot.
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Then the brethren promptly sent down to the sea-coast, but Silas and Timothy remained behind.
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Those who were caring for Paul’s safety went with him as far as Athens, and then left him, taking a message from him to Silas and Timothy, asking them to join him as speedily as possible.
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- 16 While was waiting for them in Athens, his was stirred within him when he noticed that the city was full of idols.
- 17 So he had discussions in the with the Jews and the other worshippers, and in the market place, day after day, with those whom he happened to meet.
- 18 A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some of them asked, “What has this beggarly babbler to say?” “His business,” said others, “seems to be to cry up some foreign Elohims.” This was because he had been telling the Good News of and the Resurrection.
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Then they took him and brought him up to the Areopagus, asking him, “May we be told what this new teaching of yours is?
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- 20 For the things you are saying sound strange to us. We should therefore like to be told exactly what they mean.”
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So , taking his stand in the centre of the Areopagus, spoke as follows: “Men of Athens, I perceive that you are in every respect remarkably religious.
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- 23 For as I passed along and observed the things you , I found also an bearing the inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN .’ “The Being, therefore, whom you, without knowing Him, revere, Him I now proclaim to you.
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who made the universe and everything in it—He, being Lord of Heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries built by men.
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1 Kings 8:27 Deuteronomy 10:14 Acts 7:48 Matthew 11:25 Isaiah 66:1 Psalm 115:16 Acts 14:15 Acts 4:24 2 Chronicles 2:6 John 4:22-23 Luke 10:21 2 Chronicles 6:18 Jeremiah 10:11 Isaiah 42:5 Revelation 20:11 Jeremiah 32:17 Genesis 14:22 Isaiah 40:12 Hebrews 1:2 Psalm 148:13 Daniel 4:35 John 1:1 Jeremiah 23:24 2 Kings 19:15 Psalm 146:5 Genesis 14:19 Hebrews 3:4 Isaiah 40:28 Acts 17:26-28 Psalm 24:1 Isaiah 45:18 Zechariah 12:1 Matthew 5:34 -
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Nor is He ministered to by human hands, as though He needed anything—but He Himself gives to all men life and breath and all things.
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He caused to spring from one forefather people of every race, for them to live on the whole surface of the earth, and marked out for them an appointed span of life and the boundaries of their homes;
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that they might seek , if perhaps they could grope for Him and find Him. Yes, though He is not far from any one of us.
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For it is in closest union with Him that we live and move and have our being; as in fact some of the poets in repute among yourselves have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’
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- 29 Since then we are Elohim’s offspring, we ought not to imagine that His nature resembles gold or silver or marble, or anything sculptured by the art and inventive faculty of man.
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Those times of ignorance viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to ,
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seeing that He has appointed a day on which, before long, He will judge the world in , through the instrumentality of a man whom He has pre-destined to this work, and has made the fact certain to every one by raising Him from the dead.”
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When they heard speak of a resurrection of dead men, some began to scoff. But others said, “We will you again on that subject.”
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- 33 So went away from them.
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A few, however, attached themselves to him and believed, among them being Dionysius a member of the Council, a gentlewoman named Damaris, and some others.
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