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Paul preaches

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at Athens a great multitude, and of the 15 And they that conducted chief women not a few. Paul brought him unto Athens:

5 T But the Jews which be- and receiving a commandment lieved not, moved with envy, unto Silas and Timotheus for took unto them certain lewd to come to him with all speed, fellows of the baser sort, and they departed. gathered a company, and set 16 ¶ Now while Paul waited all the city on an uproar, and for them at Athens, his spirit assaulted the house of Jason, was stirred in him, when he and sought to bring them out saw the city wholly given to to the people. idolatry.

17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; 18 Then certain philosophers 7 Whom Jason hath received: of the Epicureans, and of the and these all do contrary to Stoicks, encountered him. And the decrees of Cæsar, saying some said, What will this that there is another king, one babbler say? other some, He Jesus,

8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. 9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.

10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.

seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in 21 (For all the Athenians and that they received the word strangers which were there with all readiness of mind, and spent their time in nothing searched the scriptures daily, else, but either to tell, or to whether those things were so. hear some new thing.) 12 Therefore many of them 22 T Then Paul stood in the believed; also of honourable midst of Mars' hill, and said, women which were Greeks, Ye men of Athens, I perceive and of men, not a few. that in all things ye are too

13 But when the Jews of superstitious. Thessalonica had knowledge 23 For as I passed by, and that the word of God was beheld your devotions, I found preached of Paul at Berea, an altar with this inscription, they came thither also, and TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. stirred up the people. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.

24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and

Paul testifies of

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earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

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AFTER these things Paul came to Corinth;

departed from Athens, and

2 And found a certain Jew 26 And hath made of one named Aquila, born in Pontus, blood all nations of men for to lately come from Italy, with dwell on all the face of the his wife Priscilla; (because earth, and hath determined the that Claudius had commanded times before appointed, and the all Jews to depart from Rome :) bounds of their habitation; and came unto them.

27 That they should seek the 3 And because he was of the Lord, if haply they might feel same craft, he abode with after him, and find him, though them, and wrought: for by he be not far from every one of their occupation they were tentmakers.

us:

28 For in him we live, and 4 And he reasoned in the move, and have our being; as synagogue every sabbath, and certain also of your own poets persuaded the Jews and the have said, For we are also his Greeks.

offspring.

5 And when Silas and Timo29 Forasmuch then as we are theus were come from Macethe offspring of God, we ought donia, Paul was pressed in the not to think that the Godhead spirit, and testified to the Jews is like unto gold, or silver, or that Jesus was Christ. stone, graven by art and man's 6 And when they opposed device. themselves, and blasphemed, 30 And the times of this igno- he shook his raiment, and said rance God winked at; but now unto them, Your blood be upon commandeth all men every your own heads; I am clean: where to repent: from henceforth I will go unto

31 Because he hath appointed the Gentiles. a day, in the which he will 7 And he departed thence, judge the world in righteous- and entered into a certain ness by that man whom he man's house, named Justus, hath ordained; whereof he one that worshipped God, hath given assurance unto all whose house joined hard to the men, in that he hath raised synagogue. him from the dead.

32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

33 So Paul departed from among them.

34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

8 And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

10 For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt. thee: for I have much people in this city.

Paul accused

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before Gallio. 11 And he continued there a saluted the church, he went year and six months, teaching down to Antioch. the word of God among them. 23 And after he had spent 12 And when Gallio was the some time there, he departed, deputy of Achaia, the Jews and went over all the country made insurrection with one ac- of Galatia and Phrygia in cord against Paul, and brought order, strengthening all the him to the judgment seat, disciples. 24 And a certain Jew named 13 Saying, This fellow per- Apollos, born at Alexandria, suadeth men to worship God an eloquent man, and mighty contrary to the law. 14 And when Paul was now Ephesus. in the scriptures, came to about to open his mouth, Gallio 25 This man was instructed said unto the Jews, If it were in the way of the Lord; and a matter of wrong or wicked being fervent in the spirit, he lewdness, O ye Jews, reason spake and taught diligently the would that I should bear with things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.

you:

15 But if it be a question of words and names, and of your 26 And he began to speak law, look ye to it; for I will be boldly in the synagogue: whom no judge of such matters. when Aquila and Priscilla had 16 And he drave them from heard, they took him unto the judgment seat. them, and expounded unto hin 17 Then all the Greeks took the way of God more perfectly. Sosthenes, the chief ruler of 27 And when he was disposed the synagogue, and beat him to pass into Achaia, the brethbefore the judgment seat. And ren wrote, exhorting the disGallio cared for none of those ciples to receive him who, things. when he was come, helped 18 And Paul after this tar- them much which had believed ried there yet a good while, and through grace:

then took his leave of the bre- 28 For he mightily convinced thren, and sailed thence into the Jews, and that publickly, Syria, and with him Priscilla shewing by the scriptures that and Aquila; having shorn his Jesus was Christ.

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19 And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the syna

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Jews and reasoned with the AND it came to pass, that,

while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,

20 When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not; 21 But bade them farewell, 2 He said unto them, Have saying, I must by all means ye received the Holy Ghost keep this feast that cometh in since ye believed? And they Jerusalem: but I will return said unto him, We have not so again unto you, if God will. much as heard whether there And he sailed from Ephesus. be any Holy Ghost.

22 And when he had landed 3 And he said unto them, Unat Cæsarea, and gone up, and to what then were ye baptized/

Demetrius raises

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an uproar. And they said, Unto John's 15 And the evil spirit anbaptism. swered and said, Jesus I know, 4 Then said Paul, John verily and Paul I know; but who are baptized with the baptism of ye?

repentance, saying unto the 16 And the man in whom the people, that they should be- evil spirit was leaped on them, lieve on him which should and overcame them, and precome after him, that is, on vailed against them, so that Christ Jesus. they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

7 And all the men were about twelve.

17 And this was known to all theJews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. 18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.

8 And he went into the syna- 19 Many of them also which gogue, and spake boldly for the used curious arts brought their space of three months, disput-books together, and burned ing and persuading the things them before all men: and they concerning the kingdom of counted the price of them, and God. found it fifty thousand pieces

9 But when divers were hard- of silver. ened, and believed not, but 20 So mightily grew the word spake evil of that way before of God and prevailed.

and

the multitude, he departed 21 After these things were from them, and separated the ended, Paul purposed in the disciples, disputing daily in the spirit, when he had passed school of one Tyrannus. 10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus,

both Jews and Greeks.

11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: 12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

through Macedonia
Achaia, to go to Jerusalem,
saying, After I have been there,
must also see Rome.

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22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them, that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus: but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.

23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.

24 For a certain man named Demetrius, а silversmith, 13 Then certain of the vaga- which made silver shrines for bond Jews, exorcists, took Diana, brought no small gain upon them to call over them unto the craftsmen ;

which had evil spirits the name 25 Whom he called together of the Lord Jesus, saying, We with the workmen of like ocadjure you by Jesus whom cupation, and said, Sirs, ye Paul preacheth. know that by this craft we have our wealth.

14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.

26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but

Part goes

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to Macedonia, almost throughout all Asia, sians is a worshipper of the this Paul hath persuaded and great goddess Diana, and of turned away much people, say- the image which fell down ing that they be no gods, which from Jupiter? are made with hands:

36 Seeing then that these 27 So that not only this our things cannot be spoken craft is in danger to be set at against, ye ought to be quiet, nought; but also that the tem- and to do nothing rashly. ple of the great goddess Diana 37 For ye have brought hishould be despised, and her ther these men, which are neimagnificence should be de- ther robbers of churches, nor stroyed, whom all Asia and the yet blasphemers of your godworld worshippeth. dess.

28 And when they heard these 38 Wherefore if Demetrius, sayings, they were full of and the craftsmen which are wrath, and cried out, saying, with him, have a matter Great is Diana of the Ephe- against any man, the law is Bians. open, and there are deputies: 29 And the whole city was let them implead one another. filled with confusion: and hav- 39 But if ye enquire any thing ing caught Gaius and Aristar- concerning other matters, it chus,men of Macedonia, Paul's shall be determined in a lawful companions in travel, they assembly. rushed with one accord into the theatre.

30 And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. 31 And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.

32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not

gether.

40 For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse. 41 And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

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wherefore they were come to AND after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and em33 And they drew Alexander braced them, and departed for out of the multitude, the Jews to go into Macedonia. putting him forward. And 2 And when he had gone over Alexander beckoned with the those parts, and had given hand, and would have made them much exhortation, he his defence unto the people. came into Greece,

34 But when they knew that 3 And there abode three he was a Jew, all with one months. And when the Jews voice about the space of two laid wait for him, as he was hours cried out, Great is Diana about to sail into Syria, he of the Ephesians. purposed to return through 35 And when the townclerk Macedonia. had appeased the people, he 4 And there accompanied him said, Yemen of Ephesus, what into Asia Sopa ter of Berea; and man is there that knoweth not of the Thessalonians, Aristarhow that the city of the Ephe-chus and Secundus; and Gaius

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