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¹ And traveling through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.² And according to Paul's custom, he went in to them and reasoned with them from the Scriptures on three sabbaths,³ opening and setting forth that the Christ must have suffered, and to have risen from the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus, whom I announce to you.⁴ And some of them were persuaded and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, both a great multitude of the worshiping Greeks, and not a few of the leading women.⁵ But becoming jealous, and having taken aside some wicked men of the market loafers, and gathering a crowd, the disobeying Jews set the city into turmoil. And coming on the house of Jason, they sought to bring them on to the mob.⁶ But not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city judges, crying, Those turning the habitable world upside down have come here, too;⁷ whom Jason has received. And these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus.⁸ And hearing these things, they troubled the crowd and the city judges.⁹ And taking security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

¹⁰ But the brothers at once sent both Paul and Silas to Berea during the night; who having arrived went into the synagogue of the Jews.¹¹ And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the Word with all readiness, daily examining the Scriptures if these things are so .¹² Then indeed many from among them believed, and not a few of the honorable Greek women and men.¹³ But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the Word of God was also announced in Berea by Paul, they came there also, shaking up the crowd.¹⁴ And immediately, then, the brothers sent away Paul, to go as toward the sea. But both Silas and Timothy remained there.¹⁵ But those conducting Paul brought him as far as Athens. And receiving a command to Silas and Timothy that they come to him quickly, they departed.

¹⁶ But awaiting them in Athens, Paul's spirit was pained within him, seeing the city full of images.¹⁷ Then, indeed, he addressed the Jews in the synagogue, and those worshiping, also in the market every day, to those happening to be there .¹⁸ And some of the Epicureans and of the Stoics, philosophers, fell in with him. And some said, What may this seed-picker wish to say? And these others , He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons(because he announced Jesus and theresurrection to them).¹⁹ And taking hold of him, they led him to the Areopagus, saying, Are we able to know what is this new doctrine being spoken by you?²⁰ For you bring startling things to our ears. We are minded, then, to know what these things wish to be.²¹ And all Athenians and the strangers living there have leisure for nothing else than to say and to hear newer things.

²² And standing in the middle of the Areopagus, Paul said, Men, Athenians, I see in everything how god-fearing you are ;²³ for passing through and looking up at the objects of your worship, I also found an altar on which had been written, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Not knowing, then, whom you worship, I make Him known to you.²⁴ The God who made the world and all things in it, this One being Lord of Heaven and of earth, does not dwell in handmade temples,²⁵ nor is served by hands of men, as having need of anything. For He is giving life and breath and all things to all.²⁶ And He made every nation of men of one blood, to live on all the face of the earth, ordaining fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling,²⁷ to seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after Him and might find Him, though indeed He not being far from each one of us.²⁸ For in Him we live and move and exist, as also some of the poets among you have said, For we are also His offspring.²⁹ Then being offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, engraved by art and the imagination of man.³⁰ Truly, then, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,³¹ because He set a day in which "He is going to judge the habitable world in righteousness," by a Man whom He appointed; having given proof to all by raising Him from the dead. Psa. 9:8

³² And hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some indeed ridiculed, but said, We will hear you again concerning this.³³ And so Paul went out from their midst.³⁴ But some men believed, joining themselves to him, among whom also were both Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.