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And according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,
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opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom *I* announce to you.
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And some of them believed, and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, and of the Greeks who worshipped, a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
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But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to [themselves] certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;
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and not having found them, dragged Jason and certain brethren before the politarchs, crying out, These [men] that have set the world in tumult, are come here also,
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whom Jason has received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying, that there is another king, Jesus.
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And they troubled the crowd and the politarchs when they heard these things.
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And having taken security of Jason and the rest, they let them go.
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But the brethren immediately sent away, in the night, Paul and Silas to Berea; who, being arrived, went away into the synagogue of the Jews.
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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.