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Acts 17:4

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Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.

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Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.

Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of insight.”

Where has your beloved gone, most beautiful of women? Which way did your beloved turn, that we may look for him with you?

“Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.

The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region.

At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed.

The people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, others with the apostles.

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

Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing.

Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the believers.

but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the believers to the grace of the Lord.

Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

As a result, many of them believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men.

The believers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at Berea.

So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.

Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.

Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

This went on 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 were together and had everything in common.

shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”

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

On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us.




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