Acts 17:17

Paul In Athens

¹⁶ While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was troubled within him when he saw that the city was full of idols. ¹⁷ So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with those who worshiped God and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. ¹⁸ Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?”

Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.

On the Sabbath

Worshiped God

Day After Day

Proverbs 1:20-22

Wisdom calls out in the street;
she raises her voice in the public squares.

Proverbs 8:1-4

Doesn’t Wisdom call out?
Doesn’t Understanding make her voice heard?

Proverbs 8:34

Anyone who listens to me is happy,
watching at my doors every day,
waiting by the posts of my doorway.

Jeremiah 6:11

But I am full of the Lord’s wrath;
I am tired of holding it back.
Pour it out on the children in the street,
on the gang of young men as well.
For both husband and wife will be captured,
the old with the very old.

Matthew 5:1-2

When He saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain, and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him.

Mark 16:15

Then He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

Luke 12:3

Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in an ear in private rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

Acts 8:2

Devout men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.

Acts 9:20

Immediately he began proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues: “He is the Son of God.”

Acts 10:2

He was a devout man and feared God along with his whole household. He did many charitable deeds for the Jewish people and always prayed to God.

Acts 13:16

Then Paul stood up and motioned with his hand and said: “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen!

Acts 14:1-4

The same thing happened in Iconium; they entered the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

Acts 17:2-4

As usual, Paul went to the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

2 Timothy 3:2

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

2 Timothy 3:5

holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!