\subsection{Acts 17}
\VS{1} Now having gone through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonika, 
where there was [a] synagogue of the Jews. 
\VS{2} Now according to [his] custom Paul 
went in to them, and for three Sabbaths he spoke to them from the 
scriptures, 
\VS{3} opening and demonstrating that the Christ must suffer and 
be raised from [the] dead, and that: This Jesus is the Christ, whom I proclaim to 
you. 
\VS{4} And some from [among] them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, 
and [also a] great multitude of the worshipping Greeks, and of the foremost women 
not [a] few. 
\VS{5} Now the Jews having become jealous and having taken along 
wicked\fnPoneros{} men of the rabble and having formed [a] mob, they were setting 
the city in uproar, and having come upon the house of Jason, they were 
seeking to lead them to the assembly. 
\VS{6} But having not found them they 
were dragging Jason and some brothers to the politarch, crying out that: 
These having disrupted the inhabited world are also come here, 
\VS{7} whom Jason welcomed. And these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying 
Jesus to be another king. 
\VS{8} So having stirred up the crowd, and the 
politarchs having heard these [things], 
\VS{9} and having received bail for Jason 
and the rest they released them. 
\VS{10} Now the brothers straightway in the 
night sent out Paul and Silas to Beria, who, having arrived, came into the 
synagogue of the Jews. 
\VS{11} Now these were more noble-minded than those 
in Thessalonika, who received the word with much willingness\footnote{or 
``readiness''}, each day examining the scriptures whether these [things] might be 
thus. 
\VS{12} Indeed therefore many of them believed, and of the prominent 
Greek women and of [the] men not [a] few. 
\VS{13} Now as Jews from Thessalonica knew 
that also in Beria the word of God was proclaimed by Paul, they came there 
also shaking and stirring up the crowds. 
\VS{14} So then straightway the 
brothers sent Paul out to go until the sea, and Silas and Timothy remained 
there. 
\VS{15} But those having conducted Paul brought [him] to Athens, and 
having taken [a] commandment to Silas and Timothy that they come as swiftly [as possible] to 
him, they went out.

\VS{16} Now in Athens while Paul was awaiting them, his spirit was being 
provoked in him beholding idols being in the city. 
\VS{17} Indeed therefore 
he was speaking in the synagogue to the Jews and to the worshippers, and in 
the market place each day to those happening to be there. 
\VS{18} Now some 
of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were meeting him, and some were 
saying: What might this chatterer want to be saying? But some: He seems to 
be [an] herald of strange demons; because he was good-newsing Jesus and the 
resurrection. 
\VS{19} Now having caught him upon the hill of Ares they were 

bringing [him], saying: Are we able to know what [is] this new teaching spoken by 
you? 
\VS{20} For you bring certain strange [things] to our hearing. We wish 
therefore to know what he wants these [things] to be. 
\VS{21} Now all the Athenians 
and the foreign visitors had leisure for nothing else than to be speaking 
something or to be hearing something quite new. 
\VS{22} So Paul having stood 
in the midst of the hill of Ares, he said: Athenian men, I perceive that in 
everything you [are] religious. 
\VS{23} For coming through and beholding your 
objects of worship, I found [an] altar in which is inscribed: To the unknown 
god. Whom therefore you worship being ignorant, this [one] I proclaim to you. 
\VS{24} The God having made the world and everything in it, this [one] being Lord 
of heaven and of the earth does not dwell in temples made with hands, 
\VS{25} Nor having any further need is he served by the hands of men, himself having 
given zoe-life\fnZoe{} and breath and everything to all. 
\VS{26} And he made from one [person] every nation of men to be dwelling upon 
every face of the earth, having appointed fixed opportune-times\fnKairos{} and boundaries of their habitation, 
\VS{27} to be seeking God, if perhaps they grope after him and might find [him], and 
indeed being not far from [the] last of us. 
\VS{28} For in him we zoe-live\fnZoe{} and move 
and are, as also some of the poets among you have written:

\begin{verse}
For we are also [his] offspring.
\end{verse}

\VS{29} Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not be thinking the 
divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the image of [the] skill and thoughts 
of man. 
\VS{30} Indeed therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, 
God now proclaims to all men everywhere to be repenting, 
\VS{31} because he 
has established [a] day in which he is [about] to be judging the inhabited world in 
justice, in [the] man whom he has appointed, showing himself trustworthy to all, 
[he] having been raised from [the] dead. 
\VS{32} Now having heard [of the] resurrection of 
the dead, on the one hand [some] were mocking, but on the other hand [some] said: I will 
hear from you concerning this again. 
\VS{33} Thus Paul went out from their 
midst. 
\VS{34} Now some men having associated with him believed, among whom 
[are] also Dionysius the Areopagite, and [a] woman by name Damaris, and others with 
them.
