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And passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonike, where there was a synagogue of the Yehudim.
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And according to his custom, Paulos entered to them, and for three Shabbatot reasoned with them from the writings,
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opening and setting before them that the Anointed had to suffer and rise from the dead, and saying: “This Yahushua, whom I proclaim to you, is the Anointed.”
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And some of them were persuaded and joined Paulos and Silas, and a great multitude of devout Greeks, and not a few leading ishahot.
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But some of the Yehudim, becoming jealous, took wicked ishim from the marketplace, gathered a mob, and threw the city into disorder. And attacking the house of Yason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
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But not finding them, they dragged Yason and certain brothers before the city rulers, crying: “These who overturned the inhabited world have also come here,
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and Yason received them. And all these act against the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king— Yahushua.”
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And they troubled the crowd and the city rulers who heard these things.
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And after taking security from Yason and the others, they released them.
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And the brothers immediately sent away both Paulos and Silas by night to Berea. And when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Yehudim.
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Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonike, for they received the Word with all readiness, examining the writings day by day to see whether these things were so.
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Therefore many from among them trusted, and not a few of the honorable Greek ishahot and ishim.
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But when the Yehudim from Thessalonike learned that the Word of Elohim was also proclaimed by Paulos in Berea, they came there also, agitating and disturbing the crowds.
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And immediately the brothers sent Paulos away to go as far as the sea, but Silas and Timotheos remained there.
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And those escorting Paulos brought him as far as Athens. And receiving a command for Silas and Timotheos to come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.
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Now while Paulos waited for them in Athens, his ruach was provoked within him as he observed the city filled with idols.
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Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Yehudim and the devout ones, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.
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And certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said: “What does this seed-picker desire to say?” And others: “He appears to be a proclaimer of foreign elohim,” because he proclaimed the Besorah of Yahushua and the resurrection.
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And taking him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying: “Are we able to know what this new teaching is which you speak?
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For you bring certain strange things to our ears. Therefore we desire to know what these things mean.”
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Now all the Athenians and the foreigners dwelling there spent their time in nothing else except speaking or hearing something new.
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And Paulos, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Ishim of Athens, I observe that in every way you are exceedingly devoted to matters of worship.
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For passing through and examining the objects of your devotion, I even found an altar upon which was written: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN ELOHIM.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing, this I proclaim to you.
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The Elohim who made the world and everything in it, being Master of heavens and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by hands,
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nor is He served by human hands as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all life, and breath, and all things.
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And from one He made every nation of Adam to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined appointed times and the boundaries of their dwelling,
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so that they might seek Elohim, if perhaps they might reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.
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For in Him we live, and move, and have our being, just as even some of your own poets have said: ‘For we also are His offspring.’
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Therefore, being offspring of Elohim, we ought not to think that the Divine is like gold, or silver, or stone— an image formed by the craft and imagination of Adam.
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Therefore Elohim, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commands all Adam everywhere to repent,
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because He appointed a day in which He is about to judge the inhabited world in righteousness through an ish whom He appointed, having given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
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And when they heard of resurrection of the dead, some mocked, but others said: “We shall hear you again concerning this.”
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And so Paulos went out from their midst.
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But certain ishim joined him and trusted, among whom were Dionysios the Areopagite, and an ishah named Damaris, and others with them.