The Koine Bible

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

And according to his custom, Paul entered to them and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Opening and explaining that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead, and that this Jesus is the Christ, whom I proclaim to you.

And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, and a large number of the God-fearing Greeks, as well as not a few of the leading women.

But the Jews, being jealous, and taking some wicked men from the marketplaces, having stirred up a crowd, were causing an uproar in the city, and having stood before the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people.

Not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city officials, shouting, These who have upset the world have also come here.

whom Jason has welcomed; and all these act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

But the crowd and the city officials were disturbed when they heard these things,

And having taken a sufficient amount from Jason and the rest, they released them.

But the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived at the synagogue of the Jews, they went in.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Therefore many of them believed, including a considerable number of the respectable Greek women and men.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was also proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they came there as well, stirring up and disturbing the crowds.

But immediately at that time the brothers sent Paul away to go to the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there.

But those who were appointing Paul brought him as far as Athens, and having received a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.

Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.

So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and those who worshiped, and every day in the marketplace with those who happened to be there.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him, and some said, What does this seed-picker want to say? But others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign spirits, because he was proclaiming Jesus and the resurrection.

And taking hold of him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, Can we know what this new teaching is that you are speaking?

For you bring some strange things to our ears; therefore we want to know what these things mean.

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there spent their time doing nothing else but either telling or hearing something new.

Then Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said: Men of Athens, in every way I see you as more religious than others.

For as I was passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: To an Unknown God. Therefore, the one whom you ignorantly worship, this I proclaim to you.

The God who made the world and everything in it, this one, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in handmade temples.

Nor is he served by human hands as if he needed anything, but he himself gives to all life and breath and everything.

And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined appointed times and the boundaries of their dwelling places,

to seek God, if perhaps they might feel him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

For in him we live and move and exist, as some of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought.

Therefore, God, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commands all people everywhere to repent,

Because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he appointed, giving proof to all by raising him from the dead.

Now when they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock, but others said, We will hear you again about this.

Thus Paul departed from among them.

But some men joined him and believed, among whom were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.