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\subsection{Acts 17}
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\VS{1} Now having gone through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonika,
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where there was [a] synagogue of the Jews.
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\VS{2} Now according to [his] custom Paul
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went in to them, and for three Sabbaths he spoke to them from the
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scriptures,
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\VS{3} opening and demonstrating that the Christ must suffer and
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be raised from [the] dead, and that: This Jesus is the Christ, whom I proclaim to
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you.
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\VS{4} And some from [among] them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas,
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and [also a] great multitude of the worshipping Greeks, and of the foremost women
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not [a] few.
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\VS{5} Now the Jews having become jealous and having taken along
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wicked\fnPoneros{} men of the rabble and having formed [a] mob, they were setting
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the city in uproar, and having come upon the house of Jason, they were
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seeking to lead them to the assembly.
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\VS{6} But having not found them they
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were dragging Jason and some brothers to the politarch, crying out that:
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These having disrupted the inhabited world are also come here,
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\VS{7} whom Jason welcomed. And these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying
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Jesus to be another king.
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\VS{8} So having stirred up the crowd, and the
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politarchs having heard these [things],
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\VS{9} and having received bail for Jason
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and the rest they released them.
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\VS{10} Now the brothers straightway in the
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night sent out Paul and Silas to Beria, who, having arrived, came into the
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synagogue of the Jews.
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\VS{11} Now these were more noble-minded than those
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in Thessalonika, who received the word with much willingness\footnote{or
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``readiness''}, each day examining the scriptures whether these [things] might be
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thus.
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\VS{12} Indeed therefore many of them believed, and of the prominent
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Greek women and of [the] men not [a] few.
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\VS{13} Now as Jews from Thessalonica knew
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that also in Beria the word of God was proclaimed by Paul, they came there
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also shaking and stirring up the crowds.
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\VS{14} So then straightway the
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brothers sent Paul out to go until the sea, and Silas and Timothy remained
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there.
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\VS{15} But those having conducted Paul brought [him] to Athens, and
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having taken [a] commandment to Silas and Timothy that they come as swiftly [as possible] to
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him, they went out.
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\VS{16} Now in Athens while Paul was awaiting them, his spirit was being
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provoked in him beholding idols being in the city.
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\VS{17} Indeed therefore
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he was speaking in the synagogue to the Jews and to the worshippers, and in
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the market place each day to those happening to be there.
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\VS{18} Now some
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of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were meeting him, and some were
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saying: What might this chatterer want to be saying? But some: He seems to
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be [an] herald of strange demons; because he was good-newsing Jesus and the
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resurrection.
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\VS{19} Now having caught him upon the hill of Ares they were
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bringing [him], saying: Are we able to know what [is] this new teaching spoken by
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you?
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\VS{20} For you bring certain strange [things] to our hearing. We wish
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therefore to know what he wants these [things] to be.
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\VS{21} Now all the Athenians
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and the foreign visitors had leisure for nothing else than to be speaking
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something or to be hearing something quite new.
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\VS{22} So Paul having stood
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in the midst of the hill of Ares, he said: Athenian men, I perceive that in
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everything you [are] religious.
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\VS{23} For coming through and beholding your
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objects of worship, I found [an] altar in which is inscribed: To the unknown
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god. Whom therefore you worship being ignorant, this [one] I proclaim to you.
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\VS{24} The God having made the world and everything in it, this [one] being Lord
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of heaven and of the earth does not dwell in temples made with hands,
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\VS{25} Nor having any further need is he served by the hands of men, himself having
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given zoe-life\fnZoe{} and breath and everything to all.
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\VS{26} And he made from one [person] every nation of men to be dwelling upon
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every face of the earth, having appointed fixed opportune-times\fnKairos{} and boundaries of their habitation,
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\VS{27} to be seeking God, if perhaps they grope after him and might find [him], and
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indeed being not far from [the] last of us.
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\VS{28} For in him we zoe-live\fnZoe{} and move
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and are, as also some of the poets among you have written:
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\begin{verse}
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For we are also [his] offspring.
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\end{verse}
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\VS{29} Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not be thinking the
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divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the image of [the] skill and thoughts
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of man.
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\VS{30} Indeed therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance,
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God now proclaims to all men everywhere to be repenting,
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\VS{31} because he
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has established [a] day in which he is [about] to be judging the inhabited world in
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justice, in [the] man whom he has appointed, showing himself trustworthy to all,
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[he] having been raised from [the] dead.
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\VS{32} Now having heard [of the] resurrection of
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the dead, on the one hand [some] were mocking, but on the other hand [some] said: I will
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hear from you concerning this again.
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\VS{33} Thus Paul went out from their
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midst.
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\VS{34} Now some men having associated with him believed, among whom
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[are] also Dionysius the Areopagite, and [a] woman by name Damaris, and others with
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them.
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