Acts 17:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But some men gave him their support: among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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  • Acts 17:19 : 19 And they took him to Mars' Hill, saying, Will you make clear to us what is this new teaching of yours?
  • Acts 17:22 : 22 And Paul got to his feet on Mars' Hill and said, O men of Athens, I see that you are overmuch given to fear of the gods.
  • Rom 11:5-6 : 5 In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace. 6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.
  • Phil 4:22 : 22 All the saints send their love to you, specially those who are of Caesar's house.
  • Isa 55:10-11 : 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food; 11 So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.
  • Matt 20:16 : 16 So the last will be first, and the first last.
  • John 7:48-52 : 48 Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees? 49 But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed. 50 Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them, 51 Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done? 52 This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.
  • John 19:38-42 : 38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, made a request to Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate said he might do so. So he went and took away his body. 39 And Nicodemus came (he who had first come to Jesus by night) with a roll of myrrh and aloes mixed, about a hundred pounds. 40 Then they took the body of Jesus, folding linen about it with the spices, as is the way of the Jews when they put the dead to rest. 41 Now there was a garden near the cross, and in the garden a new place for the dead in which no man had ever been put. 42 So they put Jesus there, because it was the Jews' day of getting ready for the Passover, and the place was near.
  • Acts 13:48 : 48 And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith.
  • Acts 17:4 : 4 And some of them had faith, and were joined to Paul and Silas; and a number of the God-fearing Greeks, and some of the chief women.

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    32 Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

    33 And so Paul went away from among them.

  • 4 And some of them had faith, and were joined to Paul and Silas; and a number of the God-fearing Greeks, and some of the chief women.

  • 12 And a number of them had faith, and no small number of the Greek women of high position and of the men.

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    17 So he had discussions in the Synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles, and every day in the market-place with those who were there.

    18 And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.

    19 And they took him to Mars' Hill, saying, Will you make clear to us what is this new teaching of yours?

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    16 And when we were going to the place of prayer, we came across a girl with a spirit which gave knowledge of the future, whose masters made great profit from her power.

    17 She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation.

  • 24 And some were in agreement with what he said, but some had doubts.

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    7 And moving from there, he went into the house of a man named Titus Justus, a God-fearing man, whose house was very near the Synagogue.

    8 And Crispus, the ruler of the Synagogue, with all his family, had faith in the Lord; and a great number of the people of Corinth, hearing the word, had faith and were given baptism.

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    21 (Now all the Athenians and the men from other lands who come there were giving all their time to talking or hearing of anything new.)

    22 And Paul got to his feet on Mars' Hill and said, O men of Athens, I see that you are overmuch given to fear of the gods.

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    28 And hearing this, they were very angry, crying out and saying, Great is Diana of Ephesus.

    29 And the town was full of noise and trouble, and they all came running into the theatre, having taken by force Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia who were journeying in company with Paul.

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    13 And on the Sabbath we went outside the town, by the river, where we had an idea that there would be a place of prayer; and, being seated, we had talk with the women who had come together.

    14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.

  • 9 But because some of the people were hard-hearted and would not give hearing, saying evil words about the Way before the people, he went away from them, and kept the disciples separate, reasoning every day in the school of Tyrannus.

  • 21 And the power of the Lord was with them, and a great number had faith and were turned to the Lord.

  • 20 But when the disciples came round him, he got up and went into the town: and the day after he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.

  • 12 Then the ruler, when he saw what was done, had faith, being full of wonder at the teaching of the Lord.

  • 42 And news of it went all through Joppa, and a number of people had faith in the Lord.

  • 4 But a number of those who gave hearing to the word had faith; and they were now about five thousand.

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    23 Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

    24 For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and a great number were joined to the Lord.

  • 7 And there were about twelve of these men.

  • 7 Who was with the ruler, Sergius Paulus, an able man. This man sent for Barnabas and Saul, desiring to have knowledge of the word of God.

  • 23 And about that time a great outcry took place about the Way.

  • 4 And Sopater of Beroea, the son of Pyrrhus, and Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia, went with him as far as Asia.

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    34 But when they saw that he was a Jew, all of them with one voice went on crying out for about two hours, Great is Diana of Ephesus.

    35 And when the chief secretary had got the people quiet, he said, Men of Ephesus, is any man without knowledge that the town of Ephesus is the keeper of the holy place of the great Diana, who was sent down from Jupiter?

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    43 Now when the meeting was ended, a number of the Jews and of the God-fearing Gentiles who had become Jews, went after Paul and Barnabas: who put before them how important it was to keep on in the grace of God.

    44 And on the Sabbath after, almost all the town came together to give hearing to the word of God.

  • 21 For this reason, of the men who have been with us all the time, while the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

  • 14 And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;

  • 27 And when he had a desire to go over into Achaia, the brothers gave him help, and sent letters to the disciples requesting them to take him in among them: and when he had come, he gave much help to those who had faith through grace:

  • 19 And when he had said how glad he was to see them, he gave them a detailed account of the things which God had done through his work among the Gentiles.

  • 28 And they were with the disciples there for a long time.

  • 4 But there was a division among the people of the town; some were on the side of the Jews and some on the side of the Apostles.

  • 37 For you have taken these men, who are not doing damage to the holy place or talking against our goddess.

  • 1 Now in Iconium they went together to the Synagogue of the Jews and gave such teaching that a great number of Jews and Greeks had faith.

  • 1 And it came about that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having gone through the higher country, came to Ephesus, where there were certain disciples:

  • 30 And took them out and said, Sirs, what have I to do to get salvation?

  • 11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they said in a loud voice, in the language of Lycaonia, The gods have come down to us in the form of men.

  • 1 After these things, he went away from Athens, and came to Corinth.

  • 15 Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

  • 1 Now when they had gone through Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Synagogue of the Jews:

  • 11 But we have faith that we will get salvation through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same way as they.

  • 4 And meeting the disciples we were there for seven days: and they gave Paul orders through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.