Acts 17:1-7 ▼

1 After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

2 Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures,

3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying, |This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.|

4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.

5 But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason's house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.

6 When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming, |These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,

7 and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar's decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!|