Acts 17:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

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  • Acts 9:20 : 20 and immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.
  • Acts 13:5 : 5 and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John `as' a ministrant;
  • Luke 4:16 : 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read;
  • Acts 17:10 : 10 And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews;
  • Acts 17:17 : 17 therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.
  • Acts 8:35 : 35 and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.
  • Acts 18:4 : 4 and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks.
  • Acts 19:8 : 8 And having gone into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the reign of God,
  • Acts 24:25 : 25 and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'
  • Acts 28:23 : 23 and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening,
  • John 18:20 : 20 Jesus answered him, `I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing;
  • 1 Sam 12:7 : 7 and, now, station yourselves, and I judge you before Jehovah, with all the righteous acts of Jehovah, which He did with you, and with your fathers.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
  • Acts 13:14 : 14 and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down,
  • Acts 14:1 : 1 And it came to pass in Iconium, that they did enter together into the synagogue of the Jews, and spake, so that there believed both of Jews and Greeks a great multitude;
  • Heb 7:1-9 : 1 For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him, 2 to whom also a tenth of all did Abraham divide, (first, indeed, being interpreted, `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, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually. 4 And see how great this one `is', to whom also a tenth Abraham the patriarch did give out of the best of the spoils, 5 and those, indeed, out of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood, a command have to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though they came forth out of the loins of Abraham; 6 and he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, and him having the promises he hath blessed, 7 and apart from all controversy, the less by the better is blessed -- 8 and here, indeed, men who die do receive tithes, and there `he', who is testified to that he was living, 9 and so to speak, through Abraham even Levi who is receiving tithes, hath paid tithes, 10 for he was yet in the loins of the father when Melchisedek met him.

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    3and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft;

    4and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

    5And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;

  • Acts 17:1
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    1And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews,

  • Acts 17:16-19
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    16and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,

    17therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.

    18And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, `What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, `Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

    19having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought `him', saying, `Are we able to know what `is' this new teaching that is spoken by thee,

  • Acts 17:3-4
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    3opening and alleging, `That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ -- Jesus whom I proclaim to you.'

    4And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.

  • Acts 18:19
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    19and he came down to Ephesus, and did leave them there, and he himself having entered into the synagogue did reason with the Jews:

  • Acts 19:8-10
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    8And having gone into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the reign of God,

    9and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he did separate the disciples, every day reasoning in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

    10And this happened for two years so that all those dwelling in Asia did hear the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks,

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    23and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening,

  • Acts 13:14-15
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    14and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down,

    15and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, `Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people -- say on.'

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    17And it came to pass after three days, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: `Men, brethren, I -- having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers -- a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans;

  • Acts 17:10-11
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    10And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews;

    11and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

  • Acts 20:6-7
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    6and we sailed, after the days of the unleavened food, from Philippi, and came unto them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.

    7And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, about to depart on the morrow, he was also continuing the discourse till midnight,

  • Acts 13:42-44
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    42And having gone forth out of the synagogue of the Jews, the nations were calling upon `them' that on the next sabbath these sayings may be spoken to them,

    43and the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes did follow Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God.

    44And on the coming sabbath, almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God,

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    21for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him -- in the synagogues every sabbath being read.'

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    13on the sabbath-day also we went forth outside of the city, by a river, where there used to be prayer, and having sat down, we were speaking to the women who came together,

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    13And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came thither also, agitating the multitudes;

    14and then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining there.

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    11thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

  • Acts 17:33
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    33and so Paul went forth from the midst of them,

  • Acts 18:26-28
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    26this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to `them', and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,

    27and he being minded to go through into Achaia, the brethren wrote to the disciples, having exhorted them to receive him, who having come, did help them much who have believed through the grace,

    28for powerfully the Jews he was refuting publicly, shewing through the Writings Jesus to be the Christ.

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    11and he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.

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    19and having saluted them, he was declaring, one by one, each of the things God did among the nations through his ministration,

  • Acts 28:29-30
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    29and he having said these things, the Jews went away, having much disputation among themselves;

    30and Paul remained an entire two years in his own hired `house', and was receiving all those coming in unto him,

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    2and having gone through those parts, and having exhorted them with many words, he came to Greece;

    3having made also three months' `stay' -- a counsel of the Jews having been against him -- being about to set forth to Syria, there came `to him' a resolution of returning through Macedonia.

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    14where, having found brethren, we were called upon to remain with them seven days, and thus to Rome we came;

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    4And having found out the disciples, we tarried there seven days, and they said to Paul, through the Spirit, not to go up to Jerusalem;

  • Acts 16:3
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    3this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken `him', he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father -- that he was a Greek.

  • Acts 17:21
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    21and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.

  • Acts 18:7
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    7And having departed thence, he went to the house of a certain one, by name Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue,

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    13saying -- `Against the law this one doth persuade men to worship God;'

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    6and having tarried among them more than ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the morrow having sat upon the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought;

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    36and after certain days, Paul said unto Barnabas, `Having turned back again, we may look after our brethren, in every city in which we have preached the word of the Lord -- how they are.'

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    16And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read;

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    29for they had seen before Trophimus, the Ephesian, in the city with him, whom they were supposing that Paul brought into the temple.