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And Paul, as was his custom, went in unto them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
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expounding and alleging that it was necessary for Christ to have suffered and risen again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus whom I preach unto you is Christ."
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And some of them believed, and joined themselves with Paul and Silas, as did a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and of the chief women not a few.
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But the Jews who believed not, moved with envy, engaged certain wicked fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a crowd and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people.
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And when they found them not, they dragged Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, "These that have turned the world upside down have come hither also,
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and Jason hath received them; and they all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus."
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And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city when they heard these things.
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And when they had taken security from Jason and the others, they let them go.
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And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea, who arriving there, went into the synagogue of the Jews.
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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with allreadiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily to see whether those things were so.
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Therefore many of them believed, also honorable women who were Greeks, and of men not a few.