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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all diligence and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
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Therefore many of them believed, also of honourable women who were Greeks and of men, not a few.
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But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the people.
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And then immediately the brethren sent Paul to go away towards the sea, but Silas and Timothy abode there still.
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And those that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens; and receiving an order from him unto Silas and Timothy to come unto him as soon as possible, they departed.
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Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him when he saw the city completely given
over to idolatry.
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Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout persons and in the market daily with those that he met with.
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Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? others, He seems to be a setter forth of new gods, because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection.
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And they took him and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine
is, of which thou speakest?
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For thou bringest certain new things to our ears; we desire, therefore, to know what these things mean.
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(For all the Athenians and strangers who were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)