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But Paul said to them, "After cruelly beating us in public, without trial, Roman citizens though we are, they have thrown us into prison, and are they now going to send us away privately? No, indeed! Let them come in person and fetch us out."

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This answer the lictors took back to the praetors, who were alarmed when they were told that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

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Then Paul and Silas, having come out of the prison, went to Lydia's house; and, after seeing the brethren and encouraging them, they left Philippi.

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

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Paul--following his usual custom--betook himself to it, and for three successive Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

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But the jealousy of the Jews was aroused, and, calling to their aid some ill-conditioned and idle fellows, they got together a riotous mob and filled the city with uproar. They then attacked the house of Jason and searched for Paul and Silas, to bring th

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But, failing to find them, they dragged Jason and some of the other brethren before the magistrates of the city, loudly accusing them. "These men," they said, "who have raised a tumult throughout the Empire, have come here also.

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Great was the excitement among the crowd, and among the magistrates of the city, when they heard these charges.

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The brethren at once sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea, and they, on their arrival, went to the synagogue of the Jews.

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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.

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As soon, however, as the Jews of Thessalonica learnt that God's Message had been proclaimed by Paul at Beroea, they came there also, and incited the mob to a riot.

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Then the brethren promptly sent Paul down to the sea-coast, but Silas and Timothy remained behind.

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Those who were caring for Paul's safety went with him as far as Athens, and then left him, taking a message from him to Silas and Timothy, asking them to join him as speedily as possible.

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While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred within him when he noticed that the city was full of idols.

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A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some of them asked, "What has this beggarly babbler to say?" "His business," said others, "seems to be to cry up some foreign gods." This was because he had been telling the Good News

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(For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)

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So Paul, taking his stand in the centre of the Areopagus, spoke as follows: "Men of Athens, I perceive that you are in every respect remarkably religious.

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When they heard Paul speak of a resurrection of dead men, some began to scoff. But others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

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A few, however, attached themselves to him and believed, among them being Dionysius a member of the Council, a gentlewoman named Damaris, and some others.

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After this he left Athens and came to Corinth.

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But, Sabbath after Sabbath, he preached in the synagogue and tried to win over both Jews and Greeks.

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Now at the time when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was preaching fervently and was solemnly telling the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

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But upon their opposing him with abusive language, he shook his clothes by way of protest, and said to them, "Your ruin will be upon your own heads. I am not responsible: in future I will go among the Gentiles."

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And Crispus, the Warden of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, and so did all his household; and from time to time many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and received baptism.

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And, in a vision by night, the Lord said to Paul, "Dismiss your fears: go on speaking, and do not give up.

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