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And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.
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Therefore many from among them believed, and of Grecian women of the upper classes and men not a few.
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But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was announced in Berea also by Paul, they came there also, stirring up the crowds.
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And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as to the sea; but Silas and Timotheus abode there.
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But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and, having received a commandment to Silas and Timotheus, that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.
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But in Athens, while Paul was waiting for them, his spirit was painfully excited in him seeing the city given up to idolatry.
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He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews, and those who worshipped, and in the market-place every day with those he met with.
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But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection [to them].
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And having taken hold on him they brought [him] to Areopagus, saying, Might we know what this new doctrine which is spoken by thee [is]?
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For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.
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Now all [the] Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the news.