Acts 14:1

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Paul and Barnabas at Iconium The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.

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  • Acts 18:4 : 4 He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.
  • Acts 13:46 : 46 Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously,“It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.
  • Acts 13:51 : 51 So after they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, they went to Iconium.
  • John 7:35 : 35 Then the Jewish leaders said to one another,“Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?
  • Acts 14:21 : 21 Paul and Barnabas Return to Antioch in Syria After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.
  • Acts 16:1 : 1 Timothy Joins Paul and Silas He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but whose father was a Greek.
  • Acts 17:1-2 : 1 Paul and Silas at Thessalonica After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. 2 Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures,
  • Acts 17:4 : 4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.
  • Acts 17:12 : 12 Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.
  • Acts 17:17 : 17 So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there.
  • John 12:20 : 20 Seekers Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.
  • Acts 9:20 : 20 and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying,“This man is the Son of God.”
  • Acts 11:21 : 21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.
  • Acts 13:5 : 5 When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues.(Now they also had John as their assistant.)
  • Acts 13:43 : 43 When the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.
  • Acts 18:8 : 8 Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.
  • Acts 19:8 : 8 Paul Continues to Minister at Ephesus So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God.
  • Acts 19:10 : 10 This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.
  • Acts 19:17 : 17 This became known to all who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks; fear came over them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was praised.
  • Acts 20:21 : 21 testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.
  • Acts 21:28 : 28 shouting,“Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!”
  • Rom 1:16 : 16 The Power of the Gospel For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
  • Rom 10:12 : 12 For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him.
  • 1 Cor 1:22-24 : 22 For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom, 23 but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles. 24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
  • Gal 2:3 : 3 Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female– for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
  • Col 3:11 : 11 Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.
  • Acts 14:2 : 2 But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
  • Mark 7:26 : 26 The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

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  • Acts 14:2-7
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    2 But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

    3 So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.

    4 But the population of the city was divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

    5 When both the Gentiles and the Jews(together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

    6 Paul and Barnabas learned about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region.

    7 There they continued to proclaim the good news.

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    18 Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.

    19 But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and after winning the crowds over, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, presuming him to be dead.

    20 But after the disciples had surrounded him, he got up and went back into the city. On the next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.

    21 Paul and Barnabas Return to Antioch in Syria After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.

    22 They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying,“We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions.”

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    26 From there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

    27 When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.

    28 So they spent considerable time with the disciples.

  • Acts 17:4-5
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    4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.

    5 But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.

  • 1 Paul and Silas at Thessalonica After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

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    20 But there were some men from Cyprus and Cyrene among them who came to Antioch and began to speak to the Greeks too, proclaiming the good news of the Lord Jesus.

    21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

    22 A report about them came to the attention of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

    23 When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,

  • 2 The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.

  • 14 Moving on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

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    42 As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people were urging them to speak about these things on the next Sabbath.

    43 When the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

    44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.

  • 4 He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.

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    12 Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

    13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.

  • 51 So after they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, they went to Iconium.

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    11 On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.”

    12 The whole group kept quiet and listened to Barnabas and Paul while they explained all the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.

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    27 When Apollos wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he assisted greatly those who had believed by grace,

    28 for he refuted the Jews vigorously in public debate, demonstrating from the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

  • 7 Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

  • Acts 15:3-4
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    3 So they were sent on their way by the church, and as they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, they were relating at length the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.

    4 When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all the things God had done with them.

  • 27 Peter continued talking with him as he went in, and he found many people gathered together.

  • 20 When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to him,“You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all ardent observers of the law.

  • 42 This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

  • 10 Paul and Silas at Berea The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

  • 5 When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues.(Now they also had John as their assistant.)

  • 19 When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila behind there, but he himself went into the synagogue and addressed the Jews.

  • 14 For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

  • 14 More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, crowds of both men and women.

  • 1 Peter Defends His Actions to the Jerusalem Church Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

  • 44 All who believed were together and held everything in common,

  • 24 Some were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.

  • 10 This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

  • 32 Conditions Among the Early Believers The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common.