KJ3 Literal Translation
Acts 17
1 Paul preaches at Thessalonica and Berea. 13 Being persecuted at Thessalonica, 15 he comes to Athens, and preaches, 34 whereby many are converted.
1And traveling through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
2And according to Paul’s custom, he went in to them, and on three sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
3opening and setting forth that the Christ must have suffered, and to have risen from the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus, whom I proclaim to you.
4And some of them were persuaded and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, both a great multitude of the worshiping Greeks, and of the first ones of the women, not a few.
5But becoming jealous, and taking some wicked men of the market loafers, and gathering a crowd, the disobeying Jews set the city into an uproar. And coming on the house of Jason, they sought to bring them on to the assembled people.
6But not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city judges, crying, The ones disturbing the inhabited earth have come here, too;
7whom Jason has received. And these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus.
8And hearing these things, they agitated the crowd and the city judges.
9And taking security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
10But the brothers at once sent away both Paul and Silas to Berea during the night; who having arrived went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11And these were more noble than the ones in Thessalonica, who received the Word with all readiness, according to a day examining the Scriptures if these things might have been so.
12Therefore truly many of them believed, and of the honorable Greek women and men, not a few.
13But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the Word of God was also proclaimed in Berea by Paul, they came there also, shaking up the crowds.
14And immediately, then, the brothers sent away Paul, to go as far as to the sea. But both Silas and Timothy remained there.
15But the ones conducting Paul brought him as far as Athens. And receiving a command to Silas and Timothy that they come to him as quickly as possible, they went out.
16But awaiting them in Athens, Paul’s spirit was provoked within him, seeing the city utterly idolatrous.
17Therefore, indeed, he addressed the Jews in the synagogue, and the ones worshiping, also in the marketplace according to every day, to the ones happening by.
18And some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What may this seed-picker wish to say? And these others, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign demons (because he proclaimed Jesus and the resurrection to them).
19And taking hold of him, they led him to the Ares Hill, saying, Are we able to know what is this new doctrine being spoken by you?
20For you bring some surprising things to our ears. We are minded, therefore, to know what these things wish to be.
21And all Athenians and the strangers dwelling there have leisure for nothing else than to say and to hear newer things.
22And standing in the midst of the Areopagus, Paul said, Men, Athenians, I see how you in everything are gods-fearing ones;
23for passing through and looking up at the objects of your worship, I also found an altar on which had been written, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, not knowing Him whom you worship, I proclaim this One to you.
24God, the One who made the world and all things in it, this One being Lord of Heaven and of earth, does not dwell in temples made by hand,
25nor is served by hands of men, as having need of anything. For He is giving life and breath and all things to all.
26And He made every nation of men of one blood, to live on all the face of the earth, having determined fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling,
27to seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after Him and might find Him, though indeed He not being far from each one of us.
28For in Him we live and move and exist, as also some of the poets among you have said, For we are also His offspring.
29Therefore being offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Deity is like gold or silver or stone, engraved by art and the imagination of man.
30Indeed, therefore, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,
31because He set a day in which “He is going to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness,” by a Man whom He appointed; having offered faith to all, having raised Him up from the dead. Psa. 9:8
32And hearing of a resurrection of the dead, the ones indeed ridiculed, but said, We will hear you again concerning this.
33And so Paul went out from their midst.
34But some men believed, joining themselves to him, among whom also were both Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
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