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 the dust off their feet as a protest and went to Iconium.

Went

He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles!

Travelling on through Amphipolis and Apollonia they reached Thessalonica. Here there was a Jewish synagogue,

Every sabbath he argued in the synagogue, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

Then Paul entered the synagogue and for three months spoke out fearlessly, arguing and persuading people about the Reign of God.

That a

and after preaching the gospel to that town and making a number of disciples, they turned back to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,

the strong hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number believed and turned to the Lord.

After the synagogue broke up, a number of the Jews and the devout proselytes followed them; Paul and Barnabas talked to them and encouraged them to hold by the grace of God.

Some were persuaded and threw in their lot with Paul and Silas, including a host of devout Greeks and a large number of the leading women.

But Crispus the president of the synagogue believed in the Lord, as did all his household, and many of the Corinthians listened, believed, and were baptized.

Greeks

[Move to follow vs 3] But the refractory Jews stirred up and exasperated the feeling of the Gentiles against the brothers.

He also came down to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple called Timotheus, the son of a believing Jewess and a Greek father.

Many of them believed, together with a large number of prominent Greeks, both women and men.

Every sabbath he argued in the synagogue, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

This went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, Jews as well as Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

shouting, "To the rescue, men of Israel! Here is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against the People and the Law and this Place! And he has actually brought Greeks inside the temple and defiled this holy Place!"

(the woman was a pagan, of Syrophoenician birth) begging him to cast the daemon out of her daughter.

The Jews said to themselves, "Where is he going, that we will not find him? Is he off to the Dispersion among the Greeks, to teach the Greeks?

For I am proud of the gospel; it is God's saving power for everyone who has faith, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom,

But even my companion Titus, Greek though he was, was not obliged to be circumcised.

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

In it there is no room for Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free man; Christ is everything and everywhere.

General references

After this there will be five at issue in one house, three divided against two and two against three,