Acts 17:1-9 ▼

1 And having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

2 And according to the custom of Paul, he went in to them, and for three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

3 opening and setting forth that it was necessary for the Christ to have suffered and to have risen out from the dead, and that “this Jesus whom I proclaim to you? is the Christ.”

4 And some of them were obedient and joined themselves to Paul and to Silas, along with a great multitude of the worshiping Greeks and not a few of the leading women.

5 But the Jews, having become jealous and having taken along certain wicked men of the market-loungers, and having collected a crowd, set the city in uproar. And having assailed the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring out to the people.

6 But not having found them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the city authorities, crying out, “These ones, having upset the world, have come here also,

7 whom Jason has received. And these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, proclaiming another to be king—Jesus!”

8 And they stirred up the crowd and the city authorities hearing these things.

9 And having taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.