Acts 17:16

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Whyle Paul wayted for them at Athens, his spirite was moued in hym, when he sawe the citie geue to worshippyng of idoles.

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  • Exod 32:19-20 : 19 And assoone as he came nigh vnto the hoast, he sawe the calfe, and the daunsing: and Moyses wrath waxed whot, and he cast the tables out of his handes, and brake them beneath the hyll. 20 And he toke the calfe whiche they had made, and burned it in the fire, & stampt it into pouder, & strawed it in the water, & made the childre of Israel drinke of it.
  • Num 25:6-9 : 6 And behold, one of the chyldren of Israel came & brought vnto his brethren a Madianitishe woman, euen in the sight of Moyses, and in the sight of all the multitude of the children of Israel, that wept before the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 And when Phinehes the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose vp out of the myddes of the companie, & toke a iauelin in his hande, 8 And went after the man of Israel into the tent, & thrust them through both the man of Israel & also the woman, euen thorowe the belly of her: And the plague ceassed fro the chyldre of Israel. 9 And there dyed in the plague twentie and foure thousande. 10 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: 11 Phinehes the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the priest, hath turned myne anger away from the chyldren of Israel, whyle he was zelous for my sake among the, that I had not consumed the childre of Israel in my ielousie.
  • 1 Kgs 19:10 : 10 And he aunswered, I haue ben ielous for the Lorde God of hoastes sake: For the children of Israel haue forsaken thy couenaunt, broken downe thyne aulters, and slayne thy prophetes with the sword: and I onely am left, and they seke my lyfe to take it away.
  • 1 Kgs 19:14 : 14 And he aunswered: I haue ben ielous for the Lorde God of hoastes sake, because the children of Israel haue forsaken thy couenaunt, cast downe thyne aulters, and slayne thy prophetes with the sworde: and I onely am left, & they seke my lyfe to take it away.
  • Job 32:2-3 : 2 But Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the kinred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Iob, because he called hym selfe iust before God. 3 And with Iobs three friendes he was angry also, because they had founde no reasonable aunswere, and yet condempned Iob.
  • Job 32:18-20 : 18 For I am full of matter, and the spirite within me compelleth me. 19 Beholde, my belly is as the wine, whiche hath no vent, lyke the newe bottels that bruste. 20 Therfore will I speake, that I may haue a bent: I will open my lippes, and make aunswere.
  • Ps 69:9 : 9 For the zeale of thine house hath euen eaten me: and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen vpon me.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Ryuers of waters gushe out of myne eyes: because men kepe not thy lawe.
  • Ps 119:158 : 158 I sawe transgressours, and I was greeued at the heart: because they kept not thy lawe.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 Wherefore I thought from hencefoorth not to speake of hym, nor to preache any more in his name: but the worde of the Lorde was a very burning fire in my heart and in my bones, whiche when I woulde haue stopped, I might not.
  • Mic 3:8 : 8 Yet notwithstanding, I am full of power by the spirite of the Lorde, and of iudgement, and of strength, to declare vnto Iacob his transgression, and to Israel his sinne.
  • Mark 3:5 : 5 And when he had loked rounde about on them with anger, mournyng for the hardnesse of their heartes, he sayth to the man: stretch foorth thyne hande. And he stretched it out: And his hande was restored, euen as whole as the other.
  • John 2:13 : 13 And the Iewes Passouer was at hande, & Iesus went vp to Hierusalem,
  • Acts 17:23 : 23 For as I passed by, and behelde the maner howe ye worship your gods, I founde an aulter, wherin was written, vnto the vnknowe god. Whom ye then ignorauntly worship, him shewe I vnto you.
  • 2 Pet 2:7 : 7 And iust Lot, vexed with ye vncleane conuersatio of the wicked, deliuered he.

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    17Therfore disputed he in the synagogue with the Iewes, and with the deuout persons, and in the market dayly with them that came vnto hym by chaunce.

    18Then certaine philosophers of the Epicures, and of the Stoickes disputed with hym. And some saide: What wyll this babler say? Other some, he seemeth to be a setter foorth of newe gods: because he preached vnto them Iesus, and the resurrection.

    19And they toke hym, and brought him into Marce streate, saying: Maye we not knowe what this newe doctrine wherof thou speakest is?

    20For thou bryngest certaine straunge thinges to our eares: We would knowe therfore what these thynges meane.

    21For all the Athenians and straungers which were there, gaue them selues to nothing els, but either to tell or to heare some newe thyng.

    22Then Paul stoode in the myddes of Marce streate, and sayde: ye men of Athens, I perceaue that in all thynges ye are to superstitious.

    23For as I passed by, and behelde the maner howe ye worship your gods, I founde an aulter, wherin was written, vnto the vnknowe god. Whom ye then ignorauntly worship, him shewe I vnto you.

    24God that made the worlde, & all that are in it, seing that he is Lorde of heaue and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with handes:

  • Acts 17:13-15
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    13But when the Iewes of Thessalonica had knowledge that ye worde of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thyther and moued the people.

    14And then immediatly the brethren sent away Paul, to go as it were to the sea: but Silas & Timotheus abode there styll.

    15And they that guyded Paul, brought hym vnto Athens, and receaued a commaundement vnto Silas & Timotheus for to come to hym with speede, & went their way.

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    26Moreouer, ye see and heare, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people, saying that they be not gods which are made with handes.

    27So that not only this our craft commeth into peryll to be set at naught, but also that the temple of ye great goddesse Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the worlde worshippeth.

    28And when they hearde these sayinges, they were full of wrath, and cryed out, saying: great is Diana of ye Ephesians.

    29And all the citie was on a rore, & they russhed into the common hall with one assent, and caught Gaius & Aristarcus, men of Macedonia, Paules companions.

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    1Wherfore, sence we coulde no longer forbeare, we thought it good to remaine at Athens alone.

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    11And he continued there a yere and sixe monethes, and taught the word of God among them.

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    27And when the seuen dayes were almost ended, the Iewes which were of Asia, when they sawe hym in the temple, moued al the people, & layde handes on hym,

    28Crying: Men of Israel helpe. This is the man that teacheth all men euery where against the people, and the lawe, and this place: He hath also brought Grekes into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

    29For they had seene before with hym in the citie Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.

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    18And with these sayinges, scarce refrayned they the people, that they had not done sacrifice vnto them.

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    1As they made their iourney thorowe Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Iewes.

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    4And he disputed in the synagogue euery Sabboth, and exhorted the Iewes and the Grekes.

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    23And the same time there arose no litle a do about that way.

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    33So Paul departed from among them.

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    4And when we had founde disciples, we taryed there seuen dayes: who said to Paule through the spirite, that he shoulde not go vp to Hierusalem.

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    44And the next Sabboth day came almost the whole citie together, to heare the worde of God.

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    8And they troubled the people, and the officers of the citie, when they hearde these thynges.

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    19And when her maisters sawe that the hope of their gaynes was gone, they caught Paul & Silas, and drewe them into the market place, vnto the rulers,