Acts 17 (NET)

Acts 17:1¹After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 1:1Phil 4:162 Thess 1:1Acts 20:42 Tim 4:10Acts 17:11Acts 17:13Acts 27:2Acts 16:13Acts 14:1

Acts 17:2²Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 18:4Acts 9:20Acts 13:5Acts 14:1Acts 17:10Acts 17:17Isa 1:18Luke 4:16Acts 28:23Acts 8:35

Acts 17:3³explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying, “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 18:28Acts 9:22Luke 24:321 Cor 15:3-41 Thess 1:5-6Acts 3:18Gal 3:1Luke 24:46Acts 1:4Acts 13:26-39

Acts 17:4⁴Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:12Acts 13:43Acts 14:42 Cor 8:5Acts 13:50Acts 15:22Acts 28:242 Cor 6:17-18Acts 14:1Acts 15:27

Acts 17:5⁵But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:13Gal 5:261 Thess 2:14-16Acts 14:2Acts 17:7Gal 5:21Rom 16:211 Cor 3:3Acts 13:45Acts 14:19

Acts 17:6⁶When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming, “These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 24:5Acts 16:19-21Acts 28:22Luke 23:5Acts 21:28-311 Kgs 18:17-18Acts 18:12-13Acts 22:22-23Acts 6:12-13Jer 38:2-4

Acts 17:7⁷and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar’s decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 23:2Acts 16:21John 19:121 Pet 2:15Acts 25:8-11Dan 3:12Dan 6:13Ezra 4:12-15

Acts 17:8⁸They caused confusion among the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 11:48Matt 2:3

Acts 17:9⁹After the city officials had received bail from Jason and the others, they released them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:5

Acts 17:10¹⁰The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 2:2Acts 17:13-14Acts 17:2Acts 20:4Acts 9:251 Sam 19:12-171 Sam 20:42Acts 14:6-7Acts 23:23-24Josh 2:15-16

Acts 17:11¹¹These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 34:16Prov 2:1-5John 5:391 Thess 2:131 Pet 1:10-12Matt 13:232 Pet 1:19-21Prov 9:9Prov 1:52 Tim 3:15-17

Acts 17:12¹²Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 5:14Acts 13:50Acts 14:11 Cor 1:26Acts 17:2-4Acts 13:46Jas 1:10Jas 1:21John 1:45-49John 7:17

Acts 17:13¹³But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 2:14-16Acts 14:2Acts 17:5Acts 21:27Acts 6:12Matt 23:13Prov 28:251 Kgs 21:25Luke 12:51Prov 15:18

Acts 17:14¹⁴Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:10Matt 10:23Acts 16:1Acts 9:25Acts 9:301 Tim 1:3Acts 15:22Acts 19:22Acts 20:3Josh 2:16

Acts 17:15¹⁵Those who accompanied Paul escorted him as far as Athens, and after receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 3:1Acts 18:5Acts 18:12 Tim 4:10-11Titus 3:122 Tim 4:20-21Acts 15:3Acts 17:16Acts 17:21

Acts 17:16¹⁶While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was greatly upset because he saw the city was full of idols.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 119:1582 Pet 2:7Exod 32:19-20Ps 119:136Jer 20:9Job 32:18-20Mark 3:5Mic 3:81 Kgs 19:101 Kgs 19:14

Acts 17:17¹⁷So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:16Acts 14:1-4Acts 17:2-4Acts 9:20Luke 12:3Mark 16:15Matt 5:1-2Prov 1:20-22Prov 8:1-4Prov 8:34

Acts 17:18¹⁸Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, “What does this foolish babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.” (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:20-211 Cor 3:181 Cor 4:10Acts 4:2Col 2:8Luke 11:531 Cor 15:3-4Acts 17:31-32Acts 26:23Acts 6:9

Acts 17:19¹⁹So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 1:27Acts 17:22Acts 24:24Acts 25:221 John 2:7-8Acts 17:20Acts 26:1John 13:34Matt 10:18

Acts 17:20²⁰For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:231 Cor 2:14Hos 8:121 Cor 1:181 Pet 4:4Acts 10:17Acts 2:12Heb 5:11John 6:60John 7:35-36

Acts 17:21²¹(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 2:16-17Col 4:5Eph 5:161 Tim 5:132 Thess 3:11-12

Acts 17:22²²So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 25:19Acts 17:16Acts 19:35Jer 10:2-3Jer 50:38

Acts 17:23²³For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 4:8-9John 4:22John 17:3John 17:251 Cor 1:212 Thess 2:4Acts 17:301 John 5:201 Tim 1:17Rom 1:28

Acts 17:24²⁴The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:27Deut 10:14Acts 7:48Isa 66:12 Chr 6:18Matt 11:25Ps 115:162 Chr 2:6John 4:22-23Acts 14:15

Acts 17:25²⁵nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 50:8-13Gen 2:7Isa 42:5Acts 17:28Job 33:4Rom 11:35Job 22:2Job 35:6-7Job 12:10Ps 104:27-30

Acts 17:26²⁶From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:7-8Gen 3:20Mal 2:10Rom 5:12-191 Cor 15:221 Cor 15:47Job 12:23Job 14:5Ps 31:15Gen 9:19

Acts 17:27²⁷so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 23:23-24Deut 4:7Acts 14:17Rom 1:20Acts 15:17Ps 19:1-6Rom 2:4Ps 139:1-131 Kgs 8:27

Acts 17:28²⁸For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 12:10Col 1:17Heb 1:3Ps 36:9Luke 20:38John 11:25John 5:26Ps 66:9Heb 12:91 Sam 25:29

Acts 17:29²⁹So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 40:25Exod 20:4Isa 46:5-6Ps 115:4-8Hab 2:19-20Jer 10:4-10Rom 1:20-23Ps 106:20Exod 32:4Isa 40:12-20

Acts 17:30³⁰Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 14:16Titus 2:11-12Luke 24:47Rom 3:25Eph 4:17-321 Pet 4:3Acts 26:17-201 Pet 1:14-15Acts 3:19Rom 2:4

Acts 17:31³¹because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 3:7Matt 25:31-46Rom 2:162 Cor 5:10Ps 9:8Ps 98:91 Cor 4:51 Cor 15:3-8Rom 2:5Acts 10:39-42

Acts 17:32³²Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:18Acts 26:81 Cor 4:102 Cor 6:2Acts 2:13Acts 24:25Acts 25:192 Chr 36:16Acts 17:31Acts 26:24-25

Acts 17:33³³So Paul left the Areopagus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Acts 17:34³⁴But some people joined him and believed. Among them were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:19Rom 11:5-6Acts 13:48Acts 17:4Acts 17:22Isa 55:10-11John 19:38-42John 7:48-52Matt 20:16Phil 4:22