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do they thrust us out privately? Not so; but let 7 Whom Jason hath received; and these all do
them come, contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that
38 And let us out themselves. And the ser- there is another king, Jesus.
jeants told these words to the magistrates. And 8 And they stirred up the people, and the
they were afraid, hearing that they were Ro- rulers of the city hearing these things,
mans. 9 And having taken satisfaction of Jason and
39 And coming, they besought them; and of the rest, they let them go.
bringing them out, they desired them to depart 10 But the brethren immediately sent away
out of the city. Paul and Silas by night unto Berea. Who, when
40 And they went out of the prison, and they were come thither, went into the synagogue
entered into the house of Lydia; and having of the Jews.
seen the brethren, they comforted them, and de- 11 Now these were more noble than those in
parted. Thessalonica, who received the word with all ea-
gerness, daily searching the scriptures, whether
these things were so.
Chapter 17 12 And many indeed of them believed, and

of honourable women that were Gentiles, and of
And when they had passed through Amphipolis men not a few.
and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where 13 And when the Jews of Thessalonica had
there was a synagogue of the Jews. knowledge that the word of God was also
2 And Paul, according to his custom, went in preached by Paul at Berea, they came thither
unto them; and for three sabbath days he rea- also, stirring up and troubling the multitude.
soned with them out of the scriptures: 14 And then immediately the brethren sent
3 Declaring and insinuating that the Christ away Paul, to go unto the sea; but Silas and
was to suffer, and to rise again from the dead; Timothy remained there.
and that this is Jesus Christ, whom I preach to 15 And they that conducted Paul, brought
you. him as far as Athens; and receiving a command-
4 And some of them believed, and were associ- ment from him to Silas and Timothy, that they
ated to Paul and Silas; and of those that served should come to him with all speed, they de-
God, and of the Gentiles a great multitude, and parted.
of noble women not a few. 16 Now whilst Paul waited for them at
5 But the Jews, moved with envy, and tak- Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, seeing
ing unto them some wicked men of the vulgar the city wholly given to idolatry.
sort, and making a tumult, set the city in an 17 He disputed, therefore, in the synagogue
uproar; and besetting Jason’s house, sought to with the Jews, and with them that served God,
bring them out unto the people. and in the marketplace, every day with them
6 And not finding them, they drew Jason and that were there.
certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying: 18 And certain philosophers of the Epicureans
They that set the city in an uproar, are come and of the Stoics disputed with him; and some
hither also; said: What is it, that this word sower would say?