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Acts 17:4

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Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.

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The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”

Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned? Tell us, that we may seek him with you.

“Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on the day of salvation, and they will also be my people. Indeed, I will settle in the midst of you all.” Then you will know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me to you.

Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, “Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

When the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their region.

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

But the population of the city was divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to send men chosen from among them, Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, leaders among the brothers, to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas.

Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas who will tell you these things themselves in person.

Both Judas and Silas, who were prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with a long speech.

but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters.

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.

The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.

So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there.

But some people joined him and believed. Among them were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.

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

All who believed were together and held everything in common,

shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!”

Some were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.

When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.




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