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Acts 17:24 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands. "
Acts 17:24
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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 also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
25 He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,
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Acts 17:1
"Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue."
Acts 17:2
"Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,"
Acts 17:3
"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.”"
Acts 17:4
"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."
Acts 17:5
"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."
Acts 17:6
"When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,"
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