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And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brethren before the city authorities, crying, "These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
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and Jason has received them; and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus."
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And the people and the city authorities were disturbed when they heard this.
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And when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
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The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroe'a; and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.
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Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessaloni'ca, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
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Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men.
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But when the Jews of Thessaloni'ca learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroe'a also, they came there too, stirring up and inciting the crowds.
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Then the brethren immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.
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Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.
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Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.
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So he argued in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the market place every day with those who chanced to be there.
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Some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers met him. And some said, "What would this babbler say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities" --because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
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And they took hold of him and brought him to the Are-op'agus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is which you present?
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For you bring some strange things to our ears; we wish to know therefore what these things mean."
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Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
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So Paul, standing in the middle of the Are-op'agus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
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For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To an unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
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The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man,
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nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything.
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And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation,