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Many of them therefore believed; also of the Yevanit women of honorable estate, and not a few men.
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But when the Yehudim of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Sha'ul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
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Then the brothers immediately sent out Sha'ul to go as far as to the sea, and Sila and Timothy still stayed there.
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But those who escorted Sha'ul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a mitzvah to Sila and Timothy that they should come to him with all speed, they departed.
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Now while Sha'ul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
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So he reasoned in the synagogue with Yehudim and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
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Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign demons," because he preached Yeshua and the resurrection.
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They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?
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For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."
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Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
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Sha'ul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.