Acts 15.36-18.22

35. But Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

36. And after some days Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city wherein we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they fare. 37. And Barnabas was minded to take with them John also, who was called Mark. 38. But Paul thought not good to take with them him who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. 39. And there arose a sharp contention, so that they parted asunder one from the other, and Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away unto Cyprus; 40. but Paul choose Silas, and went forth, being commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord. 41. And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. 16:1. And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess that believed; but his father was a Greek. 16:2. The same was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. 16:3. Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those parts: for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 16:4. And as they went on their way through the cities, they delivered them the decrees to keep which had been ordained of the apostles and elders that were at Jerusalem. 16:5. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily. 16:6. And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia; 16:7. and when they were come over against Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia; and the Spirit of Jesus suffered them not; 16:8. and passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 16:9. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a man of Macedonia standing, beseeching him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. 16:10. And when he had seen the vision, straightway we sought to go forth into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. 16:11. Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis; 16:12. and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a Roman colony: and we were in this city tarrying certain days. 16:13. And on the sabbath day we went forth without the gate by a river side, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down, and spake unto the women that were come together. 16:14. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened to give heed unto the things which were spoken by Paul. 16:15. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us. 16:16. And it came to pass, as we were going to the place of prayer, that a certain maid having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. 16:17. The same following after Paul and us cried out, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim unto you the way of salvation. 16:18. And this she did for many days. But Paul, being sore troubled, turned and said to the spirit, I charge thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out that very hour. 16:19. But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they laid hold on Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers, 16:20. and when they had brought them unto the magistrates, they said, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, 16:21. and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, being Romans. 16:22. And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods. 16:23. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: 16:24. who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. 16:25. But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto God, and the prisoners were listening to them; 16:26. and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison-house were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. 16:27. And the jailor, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 16:28. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. 16:29. And he called for lights and sprang in, and, trembling for fear, fell down before Paul and Silas, 16:30. and brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 16:31. And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house. 16:32. And they spake the word of the Lord unto him, with all that were in his house. 16:33. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately. 16:34. And he brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God. 16:35. But when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. 16:36. And the jailor reported the words to Paul, saying, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore come forth, and go in peace. 16:37. But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Romans, and have cast us into prison; and do they now cast us out privily? Nay verily; but let them come themselves and bring us out. 16:38. And the serjeants reported these words unto the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans; 16:39. and they came and besought them; and when they had brought them out, they asked them to go away from the city. 16:40. And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed. 17:1. Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: 17:2. and Paul, as his custom was, went in unto them, and for three sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 17:3. opening and alleging that it behooved the Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom, said he, I proclaim unto you, is the Christ. 17:4. And some of them were persuaded, and consorted with Paul and Silas, and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. 17:5. But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took unto them certain vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them forth to the people. 17:6. And when they found them not, they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; 17:7. whom Jason hath received: and these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. 17:8. And they troubled the multitude and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. 17:9. And when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. 17:10. And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. 17:11. Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so. 17:12. Many of them therefore believed; also of the Greek women of honorable estate, and of men, not a few. 17:13. But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed of Paul at Beroea also, they came thither likewise, stirring up and troubling the multitudes. 17:14. And then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul to go as far as to the sea: and Silas and Timothy abode there still. 17:15. But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timothy that they should come to him with all speed, they departed. 17:16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols. 17:17. So he reasoned in the synagogue with Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with them that met him. 17:18. And certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What would this babbler say? others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. 17:19. And they took hold of him, and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by thee? 17:20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 17:21. (Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 17:22. And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, in all things, I perceive that ye are very religious. 17:23. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you. 17:24. The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 17:25. neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 17:26. and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation; 17:27. that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us: 17:28. for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 17:29. Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man. 17:30. The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent: 17:31. inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 17:32. Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet again. 17:33. Thus Paul went out from among them. 17:34. But certain men clave unto him, and believed: among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. 18:1. After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. 18:2. And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome: and he came unto them; 18:3. and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought, for by their trade they were tentmakers. 18:4. And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks. 18:5. But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. 18:6. And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook out his raiment and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. 18:7. And he departed thence, and went into the house of a certain man named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. 18:8. And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized. 18:9. And the Lord said unto Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace: 18:10. for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm thee: for I have much people in this city. 18:11. And he dwelt there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. 18:12. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment-seat, 18:13. saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. 18:14. But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villany, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: 18:15. but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters. 18:16. And he drove them from the judgment-seat. 18:17. And they all laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of these things. 18:18. And Paul, having tarried after this yet many days, took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila: having shorn his head in Cenchreae; for he had a vow. 18:19. And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. 18:20. And when they asked him to abide a longer time, he consented not; 18:21. but taking his leave of them, and saying, I will return again unto you if God will, he set sail from Ephesus. 18:22. And when he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and saluted the church, and went down to Antioch.

18:23. And having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples. 18:24. Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the scriptures. (Acts 15:34-18:24, ASV)

35. But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

36. After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.” 37. Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also. 38. But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work. 39. Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away to Cyprus, 40. but Paul chose Silas, and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God. 41. He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies. 16:1. He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. 16:2. The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him. 16:3. Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 16:4. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem. 16:5. So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily. 16:6. When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. 16:7. When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them. 16:8. Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 16:9. A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.” 16:10. When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them. 16:11. Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis; 16:12. and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city. 16:13. On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together. 16:14. A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul. 16:15. When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us. 16:16. As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling. 16:17. Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!” 16:18. She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour. 16:19. But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. 16:20. When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city, 16:21. and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.” 16:22. The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods. 16:23. When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, 16:24. who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks. 16:25. But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 16:26. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened. 16:27. The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 16:28. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!” 16:29. He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, 16:30. brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 16:31. They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” 16:32. They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house. 16:33. He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household. 16:34. He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God. 16:35. But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.” 16:36. The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace.” 16:37. But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!” 16:38. The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans, 16:39. and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city. 16:40. They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed. 17:1. Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. 17:2. Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 17:3. explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.” 17:4. Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women. 17:5. But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people. 17:6. When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also, 17:7. whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!” 17:8. The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things. 17:9. When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. 17:10. The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. 17:11. Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. 17:12. Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men. 17:13. But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes. 17:14. Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there. 17:15. But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed. 17:16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols. 17:17. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him. 17:18. Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. 17:19. They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you? 17:20. For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.” 17:21. Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. 17:22. Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things. 17:23. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you. 17:24. The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, 17:25. neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things. 17:26. He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings, 17:27. that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 17:28. ‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’ 17:29. Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man. 17:30. The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent, 17:31. because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.” 17:32. Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.” 17:33. Thus Paul went out from among them. 17:34. But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. 18:1. After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. 18:2. He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them, 18:3. and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers. 18:4. He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks. 18:5. But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. 18:6. When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!” 18:7. He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. 18:8. Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized. 18:9. The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent; 18:10. for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.” 18:11. He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. 18:12. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat, 18:13. saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.” 18:14. But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you; 18:15. but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.” 18:16. So he drove them from the judgment seat. 18:17. Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things. 18:18. Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow. 18:19. He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. 18:20. When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined; 18:21. but taking his leave of them, and saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills,” he set sail from Ephesus. 18:22. When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

18:23. Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples. 18:24. Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures. (Acts 15:34-18:24, WEB)

34. Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still. 35. Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

36. And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do. 37. And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. 38. But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. 39. And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus; 40. And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. 41. And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. 16:1. Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: 16:2. Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. 16:3. Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek. 16:4. And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. 16:5. And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily. 16:6. Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, 16:7. After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not. 16:8. And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas. 16:9. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. 16:10. And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them. 16:11. Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis; 16:12. And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days. ^{the chief: or, the first} 16:13. And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither. ^{sabbath: Gr. sabbath day} 16:14. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. 16:15. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us. 16:16. And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: ^{of divination: or, of Python} 16:17. The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. 16:18. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. 16:19. And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, ^{marketplace: or, court} 16:20. And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, 16:21. And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. 16:22. And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. 16:23. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: 16:24. Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. 16:25. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. 16:26. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. 16:27. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. 16:28. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. 16:29. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, 16:30. And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 16:31. And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. 16:32. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. 16:33. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. 16:34. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house. 16:35. And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. 16:36. And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace. 16:37. But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. 16:38. And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans. 16:39. And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city. 16:40. And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed. 17:1. Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: 17:2. And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, 17:3. Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. ^{whom: or, whom, said he, I preach} 17:4. And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. 17:5. But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. 17:6. And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; 17:7. Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. 17:8. And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. 17:9. And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go. 17:10. And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. 17:11. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. 17:12. Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. 17:13. But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people. 17:14. And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still. 17:15. And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed. 17:16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. ^{wholly: or, full of idols} 17:17. Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. 17:18. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. ^{babbler: or, base fellow} 17:19. And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? ^{Areopagus: or, Mars-hill: it was the highest court in Athens} 17:20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 17:21. (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) 17:22. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. ^{Mars' hill: or, court of the Areopagites} 17:23. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. ^{devotions: or, gods that ye worship} 17:24. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 17:25. Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 17:26. And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 17:27. That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 17:28. For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 17:29. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 17:30. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: 17:31. Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. ^{hath given: or, offered faith} 17:32. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. 17:33. So Paul departed from among them. 17:34. Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. 18:1. After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; 18:2. And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. 18:3. And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers. 18:4. And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. 18:5. And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. ^{was Christ: or, is the Christ} 18:6. And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. 18:7. And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. 18:8. And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized. 18:9. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: 18:10. For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city. 18:11. And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. ^{continued there: Gr. sat there} 18:12. And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, 18:13. Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. 18:14. And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: 18:15. But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters. 18:16. And he drave them from the judgment seat. 18:17. Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. 18:18. And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow. 18:19. And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. 18:20. When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not; 18:21. But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus. 18:22. And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.

18:23. And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples. 18:24. And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. (Acts 15:34-18:24, KJV)

34. and it seemed good to Silas to remain there still. 35. And Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming good news, with many others also, the word of the Lord;

36. and after certain days, Paul said unto Barnabas, 'Having turned back again, we may look after our brethren, in every city in which we have preached the word of the Lord, how they are.' 37. And Barnabas counselled to take with [them] John called Mark, 38. and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work; 39. there came, therefore, a sharp contention, so that they were parted from one another, and Barnabas having taken Mark, did sail to Cyprus, 40. and Paul having chosen Silas, went forth, having been given up to the grace of God by the brethren; 41. and he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies. 16:1. And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek, 16:2. who was well testified to by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium; 16:3. this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken [him], he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father, that he was a Greek. 16:4. And as they were going on through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that have been judged by the apostles and the elders who [are] in Jerusalem, 16:5. then, indeed, were the assemblies established in the faith, and were abounding in number every day; 16:6. and having gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, 16:7. having gone toward Mysia, they were trying to go on toward Bithynia, and the Spirit did not suffer them, 16:8. and having passed by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 16:9. And a vision through the night appeared to Paul, a certain man of Macedonia was standing, calling upon him, and saying, 'Having passed through to Macedonia, help us;' 16:10. and when he saw the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go forth to Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord hath called us to preach good news to them, 16:11. having set sail, therefore, from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, on the morrow also to Neapolis, 16:12. thence also to Philippi, which is a principal city of the part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were in this city abiding certain days, 16:13. on the sabbath-day also we went forth outside of the city, by a river, where there used to be prayer, and having sat down, we were speaking to the women who came together, 16:14. and a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was hearing, whose heart the Lord did open to attend to the things spoken by Paul; 16:15. and when she was baptized, and her household, she did call upon us, saying, 'If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having entered into my house, remain;' and she constrained us. 16:16. And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having a spirit of Python, did meet us, who brought much employment to her masters by soothsaying, 16:17. she having followed Paul and us, was crying, saying, 'These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us a way of salvation;' 16:18. and this she was doing for many days, but Paul having been grieved, and having turned, said to the spirit, 'I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come forth from her;' and it came forth the same hour. 16:19. And her masters having seen that the hope of their employment was gone, having caught Paul and Silas, drew [them] to the market-place, unto the rulers, 16:20. and having brought them to the magistrates, they said, 'These men do exceedingly trouble our city, being Jews; 16:21. and they proclaim customs that are not lawful for us to receive nor to do, being Romans.' 16:22. And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat [them] with rods, 16:23. many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely, 16:24. who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks. 16:25. And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them, 16:26. and suddenly a great earthquake came, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, opened also presently were all the doors, and of all, the bands were loosed; 16:27. and the jailor having come out of sleep, and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to be fled, 16:28. and Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Thou mayest not do thyself any harm, for we are all here.' 16:29. And, having asked for a light, he sprang in, and trembling he fell down before Paul and Silas, 16:30. and having brought them forth, said, 'Sirs, what must I do, that I may be saved?' 16:31. and they said, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house;' 16:32. and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household; 16:33. and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe [them] from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently, 16:34. having brought them also into his house, he set food before [them], and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God. 16:35. And day having come, the magistrates sent the rod-bearers, saying, 'Let those men go;' 16:36. and the jailor told these words unto Paul, 'The magistrates have sent, that ye may be let go; now, therefore, having gone forth go on in peace;' 16:37. and Paul said to them, 'Having beaten us publicly uncondemned, men, Romans being, they did cast [us] to prison, and now privately do they cast us forth! why no! but having come themselves, let them bring us forth.' 16:38. And the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans, 16:39. and having come, they besought them, and having brought [them] forth, they were asking [them] to go forth from the city; 16:40. and they, having gone forth out of the prison, entered into [the house of] Lydia, and having seen the brethren, they comforted them, and went forth. 17:1. And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews, 17:2. and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings, 17:3. opening and alleging, 'That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom I proclaim to you.' 17:4. And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few. 17:5. And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring [them] to the populace, 17:6. and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud, 'These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present, 17:7. whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king, Jesus.' 17:8. And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things, 17:9. and having taking security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. 17:10. And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; 17:11. and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so; 17:12. many, indeed, therefore, of them did believe, and of the honourable Greek women and men not a few. 17:13. And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came thither also, agitating the multitudes; 17:14. and then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining there. 17:15. And those conducting Paul, brought him unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come unto him, they departed; 17:16. and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry, 17:17. therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him. 17:18. And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, 'What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, 'Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news, 17:19. having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought [him], saying, 'Are we able to know what [is] this new teaching that is spoken by thee, 17:20. for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;' 17:21. and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing. 17:22. And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, 'Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious; 17:23. for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God, unknown; whom, therefore, not knowing, ye do worship, this One I announce to you. 17:24. 'God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell, 17:25. neither by the hands of men is He served, needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things; 17:26. He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings 17:27. to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find,, though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us, 17:28. for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring. 17:29. 'Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man; 17:30. the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform, 17:31. because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.' 17:32. And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, 'We will hear thee again concerning this;' 17:33. and so Paul went forth from the midst of them, 17:34. and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom [is] also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them. 18:1. And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth, 18:2. and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquilas, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife, because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome, he came to them, 18:3. and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft; 18:4. and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks. 18:5. And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ; 18:6. and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken [his] garments, he said unto them, 'Your blood [is] upon your head, I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.' 18:7. And having departed thence, he went to the house of a certain one, by name Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue, 18:8. and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized. 18:9. And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, 'Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent; 18:10. because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;' 18:11. and he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God. 18:12. And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a rush with one accord upon Paul, and brought him unto the tribunal, 18:13. saying, 'Against the law this one doth persuade men to worship God;' 18:14. and Paul being about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, 'If, indeed, then, it was anything unrighteous, or an act of wicked profligacy, O Jews, according to reason I had borne with you, 18:15. but if it is a question concerning words and names, and of your law, look ye yourselves [to it], for a judge of these things I do not wish to be,' 18:16. and he drave them from the tribunal; 18:17. and all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, the chief man of the synagogue, were beating [him] before the tribunal, and not even for these things was Gallio caring. 18:18. And Paul having remained yet a good many days, having taken leave of the brethren, was sailing to Syria, and with him [are] Priscilla and Aquilas, having shorn [his] head in Cenchera, for he had a vow; 18:19. and he came down to Ephesus, and did leave them there, and he himself having entered into the synagogue did reason with the Jews: 18:20. and they having requested [him] to remain a longer time with them, he did not consent, 18:21. but took leave of them, saying, 'It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you, God willing.' And he sailed from Ephesus, 18:22. and having come down to Caesarea, having gone up, and having saluted the assembly, he went down to Antioch.

18:23. And having made some stay he went forth, going through in order the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. 18:24. And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a man of eloquence, being mighty in the Writings, came to Ephesus, (Acts 15:34-18:24, YLT)