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But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most assuredly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"

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The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

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They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.

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

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Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

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But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

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When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

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The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

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The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

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Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

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But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

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Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

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But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

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Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

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Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

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Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

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Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

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Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."

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But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also 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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He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

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But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

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When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"

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Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

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The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent;

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