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"Second Mission Trip" Part II Acts 17:16-18:22
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“Second Mission Trip-Part II”
Acts 17:2 And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Acts 17:3 Explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
Acts 17:5 But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.
Acts 17:13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.
Acts 17:22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.”
Acts 17:23 “For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.”
Acts 17:24 “The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,”
Acts 17:25 “Nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.”
Acts 17:28 “For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’ ”
Acts 18:5 When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
Acts 18:6 And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
Acts 18:7 And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue.
Acts 18:8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
Acts 18:9 And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent,
Acts 18:10 "For I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.”
Acts 18:14 "But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint.”
Acts 18:15 "But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things.”
Acts 18:16 And he drove them from the tribunal.
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