when they got as far as Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them,

and so they passed Mysia by and went down to Troas.

explaining and quoting passages to prove that the messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead, and that "the Jesus I proclaim to you is the messiah."

By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.

for he publicly refuted the Jews with might and main, showing from the scriptures that the messiah was Jesus.

for the whole mass of the people followed shouting, "Away with him!"