Thematic Bible: Accept the messiah

As a result many of them became believers, together with a number of prominent Greek women and men. Verse ConceptsMany In The ChurchThose Who Believed In Christ

But some men joined him and believed; among them were Dionysius, [a judge] of the Council of Areopagus, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. Verse ConceptsConverts To ChristianityThose Who Believed In Christ

And Paul entered, as he usually did, and for three Sabbaths he reasoned and argued with them from the Scriptures, Explaining [them] and [quoting passages] setting forth and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, This Jesus, Whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ (the Messiah). And some of them [accordingly] were induced to believe and associated themselves with Paul and Silas, as did a great number of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.