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

So after they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, they went to Iconium.

Went

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, "This man is the Son of God."

Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously, "It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.

So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God.

That a

After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

When the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.

Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.

Greeks

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but whose father was a Greek.

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!"

The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, "Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God's power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him.

For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom,

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female -- for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.

General references

For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three.