Tag: Acts 17
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🌸 Paul’s Address at the Areopagus 🌻 “To the Unknown God”
📖 Acts 17:22–31 (NKJV) 📚 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; 23 for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore,…
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🌸 Some Mocked, Some Believed 🌻 “Faith in the Midst of Skepticism”
📖 Acts 17:32–34 (NKJV) 📚 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.” 33 So Paul departed from among them. 34 However, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.…
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🌸 Paul at Athens 🌻 “Reasoning in the Marketplace”
📖 Acts 17:16–21 (NKJV) 📚 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols. 17 Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be…
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Journey to Berea
📖 Acts 17:10–15 (NKJV) 📚 10 Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether…
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🌸 Paul and Silas at Thessalonica 🌻 Acts 17:1–9
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise…