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Acts 18:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

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Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord,  we try to persuade people. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your consciences.


After arranging a day with him, many came to him at his lodging. From dawn to dusk he expounded and testified about the kingdom of God. He tried to persuade them about Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets.


So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with those who worshipped God, as well as in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.


Agrippa said to Paul, ‘Are you going to persuade me to become a Christian so easily? ’


You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods.


Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly over a period of three months, arguing and persuading them about the kingdom of God.


‘This man,’ they said, ‘is persuading people to worship God in ways contrary to the law.’


The people here were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, since they received the word with eagerness and examined  the Scriptures  daily to see if these things were so.


They continued their journey from Perga and reached Pisidian Antioch. On the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.


‘But he told him, “If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.” ’


He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.  As usual, he entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day  and stood up to read.


Isn’t Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The Lord our God will keep us from the grasp of the king of Assyria’?


Let God extend Japheth; let Japheth dwell in the tents of Shem; let Canaan be Shem’s slave.


Then the Jews  said to one another, ‘Where does he intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed  , among the Greeks  and teach the Greeks, does he?


Immediately he began proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues: ‘He is the Son of God.’


In Iconium they entered the Jewish synagogue, as usual, and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.


When they reached Ephesus  he left them there, but he himself entered the synagogue and debated with the Jews.





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