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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.
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But when the Jews of Thessalonica became aware 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 away Paul to go down to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there still.
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And those who conducted Paul brought him unto Athens and, having received direction for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.
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Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
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Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the marketplace daily with those who met with him.
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Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him. And some said, "What will this babbler say?" And some others said, "He seemeth to be a proclaimer of strange 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 whereof thou speakest?
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For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears, and we would know therefore what these things mean."
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(For all the Athenians and strangers who were there spent their time in nothing else than either telling or hearing some new thing.)