Thematic Bible: Greece
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Greece » Inhabitants of » Called "gentiles" (non-jews)
For by one Spirit we have all been baptized into one Body, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen; we have all been imbued with one Spirit.
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(the woman was a pagan, of Syrophoenician birth) begging him to cast the daemon out of her daughter.
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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?
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Well now, are we Jews in a better position? Not at all. I have already charged all, Jews as well as Greeks, with being under sin ??10 as it is written, None is righteous, no, not one;
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but glory, honour, and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.
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Put no stumbling-block in the way of Jews or Greeks or the church of God.
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Greece » Gentiles called "greeks,"
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.
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In it there is no room for Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free man; Christ is everything and everywhere.
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Greece » Inhabitants of » Persecute the early Christians
he also held conversations and debates with the Hellenists. But when the brothers learned that the Hellenists were attempting to make away with him,
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Some of those who belonged to the so-called synagogue of the Libyans, the Cyrenians, and the Alexandrians, as well as to that of the Cilicians and Asiatics, started a dispute with Stephen, but they could not meet the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke. They then instigated people to say, "We have heard him talking blasphemy against Moses and God." read more.
In this way they excited the people, the elders, and the scribes, who rushed on him, dragged him away, and took him before the Sanhedrin. They also brought forward false witnesses to say, "This fellow is never done talking against this holy Place and the Law! Why, we have heard him say that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this Place and change the customs handed down to us by Moses!"
In this way they excited the people, the elders, and the scribes, who rushed on him, dragged him away, and took him before the Sanhedrin. They also brought forward false witnesses to say, "This fellow is never done talking against this holy Place and the Law! Why, we have heard him say that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this Place and change the customs handed down to us by Moses!"
Then all [the Greeks] caught hold of Sosthenes the president of the synagogue and beat him in front of the tribunal; but Gallio took no notice.
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Greece » Prophecies concerning
Greece » Inhabitants of » Accept the messiah
Many of them believed, together with a large number of prominent Greeks, both women and men.
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Some men, however, did join him and believe, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman called Damaris, and some others.
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and Paul as usual went in; for three sabbaths he argued with them on the scriptures, explaining and quoting passages to prove that the messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead, and that "the Jesus I proclaim to you is the messiah." 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.
Greece » Inhabitants of » Desire to see jesus
Now there were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival; they came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee and appealed to him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus." Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. read more.
And Jesus answered, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified.
And Jesus answered, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified.
Greece » Philosophy of
Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom, but our message is Christ the crucified ??a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,
Greece » Poets of
for it is in him that we live and move and exist ??as some of your own poets have said, 'We too belong to His race.'
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Greece » Inhabitants of » Marry among the jews
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.
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Greece » Schools of philosophy in athens
But as some grew stubborn and disobedient, decrying the Way in presence of the multitude, he left them, withdrew the disciples, and continued his argument every day from eleven to four in the lecture-room of Tyrannus.
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Paul » travels through macedonia » Greece » three months
When the tumult had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them; he then took leave of them and went his way to Macedonia. After passing through the districts of Macedonia and encouraging the people at length, he came to Greece, where he spent three months. Just as he was on the point of sailing for Syria, the Jews laid a plot against him. He therefore resolved to return through Macedonia. read more.
His company as far as Asia consisted of Sopater of Beroea (the son of Pyrrhus), Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius of Derbe, Timotheus, and Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia. They went on to wait for us at Troas, while we sailed from Philippi, after the days of unleavened bread, and joined them five days later at Troas. There we spent seven days.
His company as far as Asia consisted of Sopater of Beroea (the son of Pyrrhus), Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius of Derbe, Timotheus, and Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia. They went on to wait for us at Troas, while we sailed from Philippi, after the days of unleavened bread, and joined them five days later at Troas. There we spent seven days.