Acts 17:17

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

So, he debated in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing people [i.e., Gentile proselytes], as well as in the open shopping market with others who met with him there.

Cross References

Acts 13:16

So, Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand [to get their attention], he said, “You Israelites and those who have great respect for God, listen [to me].

Acts 9:20

And so Saul began proclaiming that Jesus was the Son of God in the synagogues [of the Damascus area].

Luke 12:3

Therefore, whatever you have said in the darkness [i.e., in obscurity] will be heard in the light [i.e., openly]. And what you have whispered in someone’s ear in a back room, will be declared from the housetops.

Mark 16:15

Then He said to them, “You [men] go into the entire world and preach the good news to every person.

2 Timothy 3:5

[These people] maintain an appearance of being godly, but they have denied its power; [you should] turn away from such people.

2 Timothy 3:2

For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive talkers, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Acts 10:2

He was very devoted [to his religious principles] and had great respect for God, along with the members of his household. He gave [money] liberally to poor people and prayed to God regularly.

Acts 8:2

The godly men who buried Stephen’s body mourned over his loss very deeply.

Acts 13:43

Now when the synagogue service was over, many of the Jews and devoted proselytes [i.e., converts to the Jewish religion] followed Paul and Barnabas, who urged them to continue accepting the unearned favor of God.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the devoted [non-Jewish] women who held respected positions, and the principal men of the city, by stirring up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and [succeeded] in running them out of the region.