Acts 14:1

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Summary

And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.

In

Acts 13:51

Went

Acts 19:8

That a

Acts 18:8

Greeks

General references

Luke 12:52

Bible References

In

They shook off the dust from their feet in protest, and went to Iconium.

Went

and began at once to declare in the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God.

Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out plainly, and said, "God's message had to be told to you first, but since you thrust it off and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the heathen.

After passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they reached Thessalonica, where the Jews had a synagogue.

Every Sabbath he would preach in the synagogue, and try to convince both Jews and Greeks.

He went to the synagogue there, and for three months spoke confidently, holding discussions and trying to persuade them about the Kingdom of God.

That a

They proclaimed the good news in that town and made a number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

The Lord's hand was with them, and there were a great many who believed and turned to the Lord.

and after the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout converts to Judaism went away with Paul and Barnabas, and they talked with them, and urged them to rely on the favor of God.

He convinced some of them, and they joined Paul and Silas, along with a great many devout Greeks and a number of the principal women.

But Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, and so did all his household, and many of the people of Corinth heard Paul and believed and were baptized.

Greeks

But the Jews who refused their message stirred up the heathen and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

He went to Derbe and Lystra also. At Lystra there was a disciple named Timothy whose mother was a Jewish Christian while his father was a Greek,

Many of them became believers and so did no small number of Greek women of position, and men too.

Every Sabbath he would preach in the synagogue, and try to convince both Jews and Greeks.

This went on for two years, so that everyone who lived in Asia, Greeks as well as Jews, heard the Lord's message.

but earnestly urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn to God in repentance and to believe in our Lord Jesus.

shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the Law and this place, and besides he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this sacred place."

Now the woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician birth. And she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?

For I am not ashamed of the good news, for it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who has faith, of the Jew first and then of the Greek.

There is no distinction between Jew and Greek for they all have the same Lord, and he is generous to all who call upon him.

For Jews insist upon miracles, and Greeks demand philosophy,

But they did not insist that even my companion Titus, although he was a Greek, should be circumcised,

There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

Here, what matters is not "Greek" and "Jew," the circumcised and the uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeborn, but Christ is everything and in us all.

General references

For from now on if there are five people in a house they will be divided three against two and two against three.