Acts 17:17

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So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout people, and every day in the marketplace with those who happened to be there.

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  • Prov 1:20-22 : 20 Wisdom cries aloud in the streets; in the public squares, she raises her voice. 21 At the head of the noisy streets, she calls out; at the city gates, she makes her speech. 22 How long, simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 8:1-4 : 1 Does not wisdom call out? And does not understanding raise her voice? 2 On the heights along the way, at the crossroads, she takes her stand. 3 Beside the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries out. 4 To you, O men, I call out, and my voice is to the people of humankind.
  • Prov 8:34 : 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the doorposts of my entrances.
  • Jer 6:11 : 11 But I am full of the wrath of the Lord, and I am weary of holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the streets and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be taken, the old and those advanced in years.
  • Matt 5:1-2 : 1 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside, and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. 2 He opened his mouth and began to teach them, saying:
  • Mark 16:15 : 15 He said to them, 'Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to all creation.'
  • Luke 12:3 : 3 Whatever you spoke in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you whispered in private rooms will be proclaimed from the rooftops.
  • Acts 8:2 : 2 Devout men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him.
  • Acts 9:20 : 20 Immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God."
  • Acts 10:2 : 2 He was a devout man and feared God along with all his household. He gave many alms to the people and prayed to God continually.
  • Acts 13:16 : 16 Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand, said, 'Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen!'
  • Acts 14:1-4 : 1 At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large number of both Jews and Greeks believed. 2 But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the minds of the Gentiles and turned them against the brothers. 3 So Paul and Barnabas stayed there for a considerable time, speaking boldly in reliance on the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by granting signs and wonders to be done through their hands. 4 The people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, while others supported the apostles.
  • Acts 17:2-4 : 2 According to his custom, Paul went in to them, and for three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures. 3 He explained and presented evidence that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying, 'This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.' 4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of devout Greeks and a considerable number of prominent women.
  • 2 Tim 3:2 : 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and unholy.
  • 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 They will have a form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.

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  • Acts 18:3-5
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    3Since they were of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them, for they were tentmakers by trade.

    4Every Sabbath, he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

    5When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.

  • Acts 17:1-5
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    1After passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

    2According to his custom, Paul went in to them, and for three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures.

    3He explained and presented evidence that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying, 'This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.'

    4Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of devout Greeks and a considerable number of prominent women.

    5But the Jews, becoming jealous, gathered some wicked men from the marketplace, formed a mob, and caused an uproar in the city. They attacked Jason's house, seeking to bring Paul and Silas out to the assembly.

  • Acts 17:18-23
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    18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some said, 'What is this babbler trying to say?' Others remarked, 'He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,' because he was preaching about Jesus and the resurrection.

    19They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, 'May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

    20For you bring some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.

    21(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)

    22Paul then stood up in the middle of the Areopagus and said, 'Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.

    23As I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So, you are worshiping in ignorance the very one I proclaim to you.

  • Acts 19:8-10
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    8Paul went into the synagogue, and for three months he spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.

    9But when some became stubborn and refused to believe, speaking evil of the Way in front of the crowd, he withdrew from them, took the disciples with him, and reasoned daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

    10This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

  • Acts 18:19
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    19They arrived at Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

  • Acts 17:16
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    16While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was deeply troubled as he observed the city full of idols.

  • Acts 17:13
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    13But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the Word of God in Berea as well, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

  • Acts 18:11-14
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    11So Paul stayed there for a year and six months, teaching them the word of God.

    12While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him to the judgment seat.

    13They said, 'This man persuades people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the law.'

    14But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, 'If this were a case of wrongdoing or a serious crime, Jews, it would be reasonable for me to hear you out.'

  • Acts 28:22-23
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    22But we would like to hear from you what you think, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect.

    23They arranged to meet with him on a certain day, and many came to the place where he was staying. From morning until evening, Paul was explaining and testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them about Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

  • Acts 28:17
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    17After three days, Paul called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, 'Brothers, though I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was handed over as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.'

  • Acts 24:11-12
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    11You can easily verify that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

    12My accusers did not find me disputing with anyone in the temple, or stirring up a crowd in the synagogues, or anywhere in the city.

  • Acts 9:28-29
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    28So Saul stayed with them and moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.

    29He talked and debated with the Hellenists, but they tried to kill him.

  • Acts 17:33
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    33At that, Paul left the assembly.

  • Acts 18:28
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    28For he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Messiah.

  • Acts 17:10-11
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    10Immediately, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. Upon arriving, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

    11The Bereans were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

  • Acts 13:44
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    44On the following Sabbath, almost the entire city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.

  • Acts 28:29
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    29After he said these words, the Jews departed, having a great debate among themselves.

  • Acts 21:19
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    19After greeting them, Paul gave a detailed account of everything God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • Acts 18:26
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    26He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

  • Acts 16:13
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    13On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.

  • Acts 21:27-29
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    27When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

    28Shouting, 'Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place. And now he has even brought Greeks into the temple, defiling this holy place.'

    29They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with Paul in the city and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

  • Acts 15:21
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    21For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every city from ancient generations, being read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.

  • Acts 13:14
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    14Passing through Perga, they arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. On the Sabbath, they went into the synagogue and sat down.

  • Acts 14:20
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    20But when the disciples gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. The next day, he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

  • Acts 5:42
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    42Every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.

  • Acts 20:7
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    7On the first day of the week, we were gathered together to break bread, and Paul began to speak to them. Since he was planning to leave the next day, he continued his message until midnight.

  • Acts 14:18
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    18Even with these words, they barely restrained the crowds from sacrificing to them.

  • Acts 18:7
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    7Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.