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But Paul said to them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privately? no verily; but let them come themselves and bring us out.

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And the sergeants told these words to the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans.

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And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.

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Now when they had passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews.

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And Paul, as his manner was, went in to them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

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But the Jews who believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain vile fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

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And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down, have come hither also;

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And they troubled the people, and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.

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And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea: who coming thither, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.

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And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul, to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timothy abode there still.

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And they that conducted Paul brought him to Athens: and receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.

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Now, while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

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Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? some others, He seemeth to be a setter-forth of strange gods: because he preached to them Jesus, and the resurrection.

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(For all the Athenians and strangers who were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

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Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

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And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again concerning this matter.

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But certain men adhered to him, and believed: among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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After these things, Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;

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And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

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And when Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in spirit, and testified to the Jews, that Jesus was Christ.

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And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean: from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

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And Crispus the chief ruler of the synagogue believed on the Lord with all his house: and many of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were baptized.

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Then the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

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