vinhvd749_en_elt_act_book/act/17.json

{
  "1": "Now having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.",
  "2": "And according to his custom, Paul went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "3": "He is fully opening and demonstrating 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.”",
  "4": "And some from them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, both a large number of worshiping Greeks, and not a few of the leading women.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "5": "But the Jews, having become jealous, and having taken certain wicked men of the marketplace, and having gathered a crowd together, they set the city in an uproar. And having assaulted the house of Jason, they sought to lead them to the people.",
  "6": "But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the city officials, crying out, “Those who have turned the inhabited world upside down—they are here in this place also,",
  "7": "whom Jason and all these men have welcomed, acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king—Jesus.”\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "8": "And the crowd and the city officials were disturbed, hearing these things.",
  "9": "And after they had received a bond from Jason and the rest of them, they released them.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "10": "But immediately by night, the brothers sent away both Paul and Silas to Berea, who, when they arrived there, went into the synagogue of the Jews.",
  "11": "Now these were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all readiness, examining the Scriptures each day, whether these things were so.",
  "12": "Therefore many from them believed, including influential Greek women and not a few men.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "13": "But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was also being proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came and there stirred up and troubled the crowds.",
  "14": "But then immediately, the brothers sent Paul away to go as far as to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy stayed there.",
  "15": "But those who were leading Paul down took him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command to Silas and Timothy that they would come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "16": "Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him, seeing the city being full of idols.",
  "17": "So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and those who were worshiping, and in the marketplace every day with those whom he met there.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "18": "But also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to argue with him. And some said, “What is this babbler wanting to say?” But others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he was proclaiming the gospel about Jesus and the resurrection.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "19": "And taking hold of him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “Are we able to know what is this new teaching which is being spoken by you?",
  "20": "For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know what these things want to be.”",
  "21": "(And all the Athenians and the foreigners living there spent their time in nothing other than either to tell something or to listen to something new.)\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "22": "And Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said,\n\\p “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every way.",
  "23": "For passing through and observing your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which had been inscribed, “To an Unknown God.” What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "24": "The God who made the world and all that is in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth does not live in temples built with hands.",
  "25": "Neither is he served by hands of men, as though he needed anything, himself giving to all life and breath and all things.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "26": "And from one man he made every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons and the boundaries of their habitation,",
  "27": "to seek God and perhaps they might feel around for him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "28": "For in him we live and move and exist, as also a certain one of your own poets has said,\n\\p ‘For we also are his offspring.’",
  "29": "Therefore, being offspring of God, we ought not to consider the divine being to be like gold, or silver, or stone—images of the skill and imagination of man.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "30": "Therefore God, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commands all men everywhere to repent,",
  "31": "because he has set a day in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed. He has provided signs to all, having raised him from the dead.”\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "32": "Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked him; but others said, “We will hear you again concerning this matter.”",
  "33": "So, Paul went out from among them.",
  "34": "But certain men who joined him believed, among whom included Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "front": "\\p"
}