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Right away the followers sent Paul down to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.

As I was going through your city and looking at the things you worship, I found an altar with the words, "To an Unknown God." You worship this God, but you don't really know him. So I want to tell you about him.

In the past, God forgave all this because people did not know what they were doing. But now he says that everyone everywhere must turn to him.

But after Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, he spent all his time preaching to the Jews about Jesus the Messiah.

But since this concerns only words, names, and your own law, you will have to take care of it. I refuse to judge such matters."

The crowd grabbed Sosthenes, the Jewish leader, and beat him up in front of the court. But none of this mattered to Gallio.

After Paul had stayed for a while with the Lord's followers in Corinth, he told them good-by and sailed on to Syria with Aquila and Priscilla. But before he left, he had his head shaved at Cenchreae because he had made a promise to God.

They asked him to stay longer, but he refused.

He also knew much about the Lord's Way, and he spoke about it with great excitement. What he taught about Jesus was right, but all he knew was John's message about baptism.

Apollos started speaking bravely in the Jewish meeting place. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him to their home and helped him understand God's Way even better.

Paul replied, "John baptized people so that they would turn to God. But he also told them that someone else was coming, and that they should put their faith in him. Jesus is the one that John was talking about."

but some of them were stubborn and refused to believe. In front of everyone they said terrible things about God's Way. Paul left and took the followers with him to the lecture hall of Tyrannus. He spoke there every day

when an evil spirit said to them, "I know Jesus! And I have heard about Paul. But who are you?"

So he sent his two helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia. But he stayed on in Asia for a while.

But you have surely seen and heard how this man Paul is upsetting a lot of people, not only in Ephesus, but almost everywhere in Asia. He claims that the gods we humans make are not really gods at all.

Paul wanted to go out and speak to the people, but the Lord's followers would not let him.

But when the crowd saw that he was Jewish, they all shouted for two hours, "Great is Artemis, the goddess of the Ephesians!"

But if you want to do more than that, the matter will have to be brought before the city council.

and stayed there for three months. Paul was about to sail to Syria. But some of the Jewish leaders plotted against him, so he decided to return by way of Macedonia.

Some of the Jews plotted against me and caused me a lot of sorrow and trouble. But I served the Lord and was humble.