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Acts 17:14 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

14 So, immediately the brothers sent Paul clear over to the coast, while Silas and Timothy remained there [at Berea].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

14 At once the brethren sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained behind.

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American Standard Version (1901)

14 And then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul to go as far as to the sea: and Silas and Timothy abode there still.

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Common English Bible

14 The brothers and sisters sent Paul away to the seacoast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained at Beroea.

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Catholic Public Domain Version

14 And then the brothers quickly sent Paul away, so that he might travel by sea. But Silas and Timothy remained there.

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Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul, to go unto the sea; but Silas and Timothy remained there.

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Acts 17:14
16 Cross References  

When they persecute you in one town, run to the next one, for it is true when I tell you, you will not have traveled through [all] the towns of the Israelites until the Son of man comes [i.e., in His kingdom].


And during this time Peter stood up to speak to a gathering of about one hundred twenty persons.


Then it seemed wise to the apostles and the elders, [along] with the entire church, to select men from their number and send them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. So, they chose Judas, who was [also] called Barsabbas, and Silas, [who were] principal men among the brothers.


When Paul came to Derbe and [then] to Lystra, he met a certain disciple named Timothy, whose mother was a Jewish believer, but his father was a Greek [i.e., Gentile].


The brothers [then] immediately sent Paul and Silas away at night to Berea [i.e., a town in Macedonia]. When they got there they went into the Jewish synagogue.


But those who escorted Paul took him to Athens [i.e., in Greece] and, after being directed to have Silas and Timothy join him there as soon as possible, they left.


Some of the Jews were convinced [that Jesus was the Messiah] and so joined with Paul and Silas. Also, a large number of devoted Greeks [i.e., Gentiles] and leading women [joined their group].


When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials and shouted, “These men have turned the world upside down [i.e., disrupted society by their preaching] and have [now] come here also [i.e., to do the same thing in our community].


But when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia [i.e., from the town of Berea], Paul began devoting his full time to declaring the message to Jews that Jesus was the Christ.


After sending his two associates Timothy and Erastus on to Macedonia [Note: These were men who cared for various needs of his ministry], Paul remained in [the province of] Asia for a while.


where he spent three months. Then, just as he was about to set sail for Syria, Paul discovered that a plot was being laid against him by the Jews, so he decided to return through Macedonia.


[However], his disciples lowered him in a basket over the [city] wall at night [and so he escaped].


And when the brothers [in the Jerusalem church] learned about this, they brought him down to Caesarea and then sent him on to Tarsus, [his home town].


As I urged you to do when I was leaving Macedonia [See Acts 20:1ff], I want you to remain in Ephesus in order to urge certain people not to teach a different [i.e., false] doctrine,


The reason I left you in Crete [Note: This was an island in the Mediterranean Sea off the southern coast of Greece] was so you could set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city [i.e., where there was a church], as I directed you.


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