Acts 17:4

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Summary

And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

Some

Consorted

2 Corinthians 8:5

Silas

Acts 15:22

The devout

And of the chief

Acts 17:12

Acts 13:50

General references

Acts 28:24

Bible References

Some

But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Portico.

Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

And some were convinced by what he said, but others disbelieved.

Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight."

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?

Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

"Thus says the LORD of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities.

Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,

Consorted

and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.

Silas

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,

The devout

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.

And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.

This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place."

And of the chief

Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men.

But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

General references

And some were convinced by what he said, but others disbelieved.