Acts 17:11

Weymouth NT

The Jews at Beroea were of a nobler disposition than those in Thessalonica, for they very readily received the Message, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether it was as Paul stated.

Cross References

Matthew 13:23

But he who has received the seed on good ground is he who hears and understands. Such hearers give a return, and yield one a hundred for one, another sixty, another thirty.

Luke 1:2

on the authority of those who were from the beginning eye-witnesses and were devoted to the service of the divine Message,

Luke 11:3

give us day after day our bread for the day;

Luke 16:29

»`They have Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham; `let them hear them.'«

Luke 24:44

And He said to them, »This is what I told you while I was still with you–that everything must be fulfilled that is written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and the Psalms concerning me.«

John 3:21

But he who does what is honest and right comes to the light, in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been done in God.

John 5:39

»You search the Scriptures, because you suppose that in them you will find the Life of the Ages; and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony concerning me;«

Acts 10:33

»Immediately, therefore, I sent to you, and I thank you heartily for having come. That is why all of us are now assembled here in God's presence, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say.«

Acts 11:1

Now the Apostles, and the brethren in various parts of Judaea, heard that the Gentiles also had received God's Message;

Acts 17:1

Then, passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they went to Thessalonica. Here there was a synagogue of the Jews.

Acts 2:41

Those, therefore, who joyfully welcomed his Message were baptized; and on that one day about three thousand persons were added to them;

1 Thessalonians 1:6

And you followed the pattern set you by us and by the Master, after you had received the Message amid severe persecution, and yet with the joy which the Holy Spirit gives,

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to God, that when you received God's Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as –what it really is– God's Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and by every kind of wicked deception for those who are on the way to perdition because they did not welcome into their hearts the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.

James 1:21

Ridding yourselves, therefore, of all that is vile and of the evil influences which prevail around you, welcome in a humble spirit the Message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:2

Thirst, like newly-born infants, for pure milk for the soul, that by it you may grow up to salvation;