Acts 17:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Prov 1:20-22 : 20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares. 21 She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words: 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, And fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 8:1-4 : 1 Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice? 2 On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she stands. 3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entry doors, she cries aloud: 4 "To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
  • Prov 8:34 : 34 Blessed is the man who hears me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my door posts.
  • Jer 6:11 : 11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
  • Matt 5:1-2 : 1 Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. 2 He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
  • Mark 16:15 : 15 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to the whole creation.
  • Luke 12:3 : 3 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.
  • Acts 8:2 : 2 Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.
  • Acts 9:20 : 20 Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.
  • Acts 10:2 : 2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
  • Acts 13:16 : 16 Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.
  • Acts 14:1-4 : 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. 2 But the disbelieving{or, disobedient} Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers. 3 Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. 4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
  • Acts 17:2-4 : 2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3 explaining 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." 4 Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
  • 2 Tim 3:2 : 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
  • 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.

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

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

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

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

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

    3 explaining 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."

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

    5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along{TR reads "And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along" instead of "But the unpersuaded Jews took along"} some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

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    18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also{TR omits "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.

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

    20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."

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

    22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

    23 For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

  • Acts 19:8-10
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    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.

    9 But 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.

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

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

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

  • 13 But 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.

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

    12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

    13 saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

    14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;

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    22 But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."

    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.

  • 17 It 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,

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

    12 In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

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    28 He was with them entering into{TR and NU add "and going out"} Jerusalem,

    29 preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. He spoke and disputed against the Grecian Jews, but they were seeking to kill him.

  • 33 Thus Paul went out from among them.

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

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    10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

    11 Now 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.

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

  • 29 When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.

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

  • 26 He 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.

  • 13 On 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.

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    27 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

    28 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"

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

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

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

  • 20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

  • 42 Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

  • 7 On 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.

  • 18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

  • 7 He 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.