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Acts 17:4

James Moffatt - New Testament

Some were persuaded and threw in their lot with Paul and Silas, including a host of devout Greeks and a large number of the leading women.

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Many of them believed, together with a large number of prominent Greeks, both women and men.

The populace of the town was divided; some sided with the Jews, some with the apostles.

After the synagogue broke up, a number of the Jews and the devout proselytes followed them; Paul and Barnabas talked to them and encouraged them to hold by the grace of God.

They have done more than I expected; they gave themselves to the Lord, to begin with, and then (for so God willed it) they put themselves at my disposal.

Some were convinced by what he said, but the others would not believe.

Then the apostles and the presbyters, together with the whole church, decided to select some of their number and send them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. The men selected were Judas (called Bar-Sabbas) and Silas, prominent members of the brotherhood.

But the Jews incited the devout women of high rank and the leading men in the town, who stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their territory.

shouting, "To the rescue, men of Israel! Here is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against the People and the Law and this Place! And he has actually brought Greeks inside the temple and defiled this holy Place!"

This went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, Jews as well as Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

Every sabbath he argued in the synagogue, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

Some men, however, did join him and believe, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman called Damaris, and some others.

He argued in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout proselytes and also in the marketplace daily with those who chanced to be present.

so, as Paul wished him to go abroad with him, he took and circumcised him on account of the local Jews, all of whom knew his father had been a Greek.

while Paul selected Silas and went off, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.

and as Judas and Silas were themselves prophets, they encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many a counsel.

We therefore send Judas and Silas with the following message, which they will also give to you orally.

At Iconium the same thing happened. They went into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke in such a way that a great body both of Jews and Greeks believed.

On being released they went to their friends and related what the high priests and elders had said;

The believers all kept together; they shared all they had with one another,

The Jews said to themselves, "Where is he going, that we will not find him? Is he off to the Dispersion among the Greeks, to teach the Greeks?

Then the brothers at once sent off Paul and Silas by night to Beroea. When they arrived there, they betook themselves to the Jewish synagogue,

The brothers then sent off Paul at once on his way to the sea, while Silas and Timotheus remained where they were.




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