Acts 17:1-13 ▼

1 SO journeying through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of Jews:

2 And Paul, according to his usual custom, went in to them, and for three sabbaths he reasoned with them from the scriptures,

3 opening them clearly, and laying it evidently down that the Messiah must suffer, and rise again from the dead; and that this man is the Messiah, even Jesus, whom I preach unto you.

4 And some of them believed, and associated themselves with Paul and Silas; and of the religious Greeks a vast multitude, and of the wives of the first people not a few.

5 But the unbelieving Jews, roused to a fit of zeal, and taking some of the lowest vulgar men of vile characters, and raising a mob, set the city in an uproar, and besetting the house of Jason, sought them to bring them unto the people.

6 But not finding them there, they dragged Jason and certain brethren to the city magistrates, roaring out, These are the men who are movers of sedition through the world, and are come in hither;

7 whom Jason has entertained in his house: and the practice of all these fellows is in direct opposition to all Cæsar's ordinances, for they affirm that another is king, one Jesus.

8 And they greatly agitated the people and the city magistrates when they heard these things.

9 So after taking sufficient security from Jason and the rest, they dismissed them.

10 Then the disciples immediately by night sent off both Paul and Silas to Berea; who were no sooner arrived, than they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

11 Now these were more liberally minded men than those of Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness of mind, daily, examining the Scriptures if these things were really so.

12 Then many of them truly believed: and of the Grecian proselyte women of respectability, and of the men not a few.

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