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Acts 17:4

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Some of the Jews were persuaded to join Paul and Silas, especially a large group of Greeks who had converted to Judaism and the wives of many prominent men.

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Whoever walks with wise people will be wise, but whoever associates with fools will suffer.

Stop being gullible and live. Start traveling the road to understanding.”

Where did your beloved go, most beautiful of women? Where did your beloved turn? We will look for him with you.

On that day many nations will join the Lord and become my people. I will live among you. Then you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you.

The Jews said among themselves, “Where does this man intend to go so that we won’t find him? Does he mean that he’ll live with the Jews who are scattered among the Greeks and that he’ll teach the Greeks?

When the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas. Paul and Barnabas talked with them and were persuading them to continue trusting God’s good will.

But Jews stirred up devout women of high social standing and the officials of the city. These people started to persecute Paul and Barnabas and threw them out of their territory.

The same thing happened in the city of Iconium. Paul and Barnabas went into the synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large crowd of Jews and Greeks believed.

But the people of Iconium were divided. Some were for the Jews, while others were for the apostles.

Then the apostles, the spiritual leaders, and the whole church decided to choose some of their men to send with Paul and Barnabas to the city of Antioch. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, who were leaders among the believers.

We have sent Judas and Silas to report to you on our decision.

Judas and Silas, who were also prophets, spoke a long time to encourage and strengthen the believers.

Paul chose Silas and left after the believers entrusted him to the Lord’s care.

Paul wanted Timothy to go with him. So he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in those places and because he knew that Timothy’s father was Greek.

Immediately when night came, the believers sent Paul and Silas to the city of Berea. When Paul and Silas arrived in the city of Berea, they entered the synagogue.

Many of them became believers, and quite a number of them were prominent Greek men and women.

The believers immediately sent Paul to the seacoast, but Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.

He held discussions in the synagogue with Jews and converts to Judaism. He also held discussions every day in the public square with anyone who happened to be there.

Some men joined him and became believers. With them were Dionysius, who was a member of the court, and a woman named Damaris, and some other people.

On every day of rest—a holy day, Paul would discuss ⌞Scripture⌟ in the synagogue. He tried to win over Jews and Greeks who had converted to Judaism.

This continued for two years so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.

All the believers kept meeting together, and they shared everything with each other.

Then they began shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere to turn against the Jewish people, Moses’ Teachings, and this temple. He has even brought Greeks into the temple courtyard and has made this holy place unclean.”

Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others continued to disbelieve.

When Peter and John were released, they went to their own people and told them everything the chief priests and leaders had said.

They did more than we had expected. First, they gave themselves to the Lord and to us, since this was God’s will.




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