Acts 17:1-15

1And having journeyed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews.

2And according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,

3opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom I announce to you.

4And some of them believed, and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, and of the Greeks who worshipped, a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

5But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to [themselves] certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;

6and not having found them, dragged Jason and certain brethren before the politarchs, crying out, These [men] that have set the world in tumult, are come here also,

7whom Jason has received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying, that there is another king, Jesus.

8And they troubled the crowd and the politarchs when they heard these things.

9And having taken security of Jason and the rest, they let them go.

10But the brethren immediately sent away, in the night, Paul and Silas to Berea; who, being arrived, went away into the synagogue of the Jews.

11And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.

12Therefore many from among them believed, and of Grecian women of the upper classes and men not a few.

13But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of 1God was announced in Berea also by Paul, they came there also, stirring up the crowds.

14And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as to the sea; but Silas and Timotheus abode there.

15But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and, having received a commandment to Silas and Timotheus, that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.