Acts 17:2

World English Bible (2000)

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

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  • Acts 9:20 : 20 Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.
  • Acts 13:5 : 5 When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. They had also John as their attendant.
  • Luke 4:16 : 16 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
  • Acts 17:10 : 10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
  • Acts 17:17 : 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
  • Acts 8:35 : 35 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.
  • Acts 18:4 : 4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
  • Acts 19:8 : 8 He entered into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning the Kingdom of God.
  • Acts 24:25 : 25 As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you."
  • Acts 28:23 : 23 When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
  • John 18:20 : 20 Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
  • 1 Sam 12:7 : 7 Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  • Acts 13:14 : 14 But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.
  • Acts 14:1 : 1 It happened in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
  • Heb 7:1-9 : 1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace; 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually. 4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils. 5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham, 6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises. 7 But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater. 8 Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives. 9 We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes, 10 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.

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  • Acts 18:3-5
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    3and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

    4He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

    5But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

  • Acts 17:1
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    1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

  • Acts 17:16-19
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    16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

    17So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

    18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

    19They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

  • Acts 17:3-4
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    3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."

    4Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

  • Acts 18:19
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    19He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

  • Acts 19:8-10
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    8He entered into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning the Kingdom of God.

    9But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

    10This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

  • Acts 28:23
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    23When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

  • Acts 13:14-15
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    14But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.

    15After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."

  • Acts 28:17
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    17It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

  • Acts 17:10-11
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    10The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

    11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

  • Acts 20:6-7
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    6We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.

    7On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

  • Acts 13:42-44
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    42So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

    43Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

    44The next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

  • Acts 15:21
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    21For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath."

  • Acts 16:13
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    13On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.

  • Acts 17:13-14
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    13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

    14Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

  • Acts 24:11
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    11seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

  • Acts 17:33
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    33Thus Paul went out from among them.

  • Acts 18:26-28
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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.

    27When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

    28for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

  • Acts 18:11
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    11He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

  • Acts 21:19
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    19When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • Acts 28:29-30
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    29When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.

    30Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who were coming to him,

  • Acts 20:2-3
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    2When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

    3When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

  • Acts 28:14
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    14where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.

  • Acts 21:4
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    4Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

  • Acts 16:3
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    3Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

  • Acts 17:21
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    21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

  • Acts 18:7
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    7He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

  • Acts 18:13
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    13saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

  • Acts 25:6
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    6When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.

  • Acts 15:36
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    36After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing."

  • Luke 4:16
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    16He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

  • Acts 21:29
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    29For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.