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Acts 17:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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 17:4

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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 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.

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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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 17:5

"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,"

Acts 17:7

"whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”"

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