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Acts 17:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Some of them believed what Paul had said, and they became followers with Paul and Silas. Some Gentiles and many important women also believed the message.

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Wise friends make you wise, but you hurt yourself by going around with fools.

If you want to live, give up your foolishness and let understanding guide your steps.”

Most beautiful of women, tell us where he has gone. Let us help you find him.

When he does, many nations will turn to him and become his people. At that time you will know that I am a prophet of the LORD All-Powerful.

The Jewish leaders asked each other, “Where can he go to keep us from finding him? Is he going to some foreign country where our people live? Is he going there to teach the Greeks?

After the service, many Jews and a lot of Gentiles who worshipped God went with them. Paul and Barnabas begged them all to remain faithful to God, who had been so kind to them.

But the Jewish leaders went to some of the important men in the town and to some respected women who were religious. They turned them against Paul and Barnabas and started making trouble for them. They even chased them out of that part of the country.

Paul and Barnabas spoke in the Jewish meeting place in Iconium, just as they had done at Antioch, and many Jews and Gentiles put their faith in the Lord.

The people of Iconium did not know what to think. Some of them believed the Jewish group, and others believed the apostles.

The apostles, the leaders, and all the church members decided to send some men to Antioch along with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Silas and Judas Barsabbas, who were two leaders of the Lord's followers.

We are also sending Judas and Silas, who will tell you in person the same things that we are writing.

Judas and Silas were prophets, and they spoke a long time, encouraging and helping the Lord's followers.

but Paul took Silas and left after the followers had placed them in God's care.

and Paul wanted him to go with them. But Paul first had him circumcised, because all the Jewish people around there knew that Timothy's father was Greek.

That same night the Lord's followers sent Paul and Silas on to Berea, and after they arrived, they went to the Jewish meeting place.

Many of them put their faith in the Lord, including some important Greek women and several men.

Straight away the followers sent Paul down to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.

He went to the Jewish meeting place to speak to the Jews and to anyone who worshipped with them. Day after day he also spoke to everyone he met in the market.

some of the men put their faith in the Lord and went with Paul. One of them was a council member named Dionysius. A woman named Damaris and several others also put their faith in the Lord.

Every Sabbath, Paul went to the Jewish meeting place. He spoke to Jews and Gentiles and tried to win them over.

for two years, until every Jew and Gentile in Asia had heard the Lord's message.

All the Lord's followers often met together, and they shared everything they had.

They were shouting, “Friends, help us! This man goes around everywhere, saying bad things about our nation and about the Law of Moses and about this temple. He has even brought shame to this holy temple by bringing in Gentiles.”

Some of the leaders agreed with what Paul said, but others did not.

As soon as Peter and John had been set free, they went back and told the others everything that the chief priests and the leaders had said to them.

And they did more than we had hoped. They gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, just as God wanted them to do.




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