Acts 17Book 44 of 66 · 34 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
Then Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures.
explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Christ.”
And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.
But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.
But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.
Jason has welcomed them, and they are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”
And the crowd and city officials who heard these things were disturbed.
So when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
Then the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.
These were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Therefore many of them believed, along with a number of prominent Greek women and men.
But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.
Then immediately the brothers sent Paul away to go to the sea; but Silas and Timothy remained there.
So those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.
Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.
Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.
Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him, and some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.
And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
For you bring some strange things to our ears; therefore we want to know what these things mean.”
Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time on nothing else but telling or hearing something new.
Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious;
for as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you:
The God who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made by hands.
Nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all life and breath and everything.
And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us;
for in Him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’
Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all people everywhere to repent,
because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.”
So Paul went out from their midst.
However, some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.