Study Desk

So why are you putting God to the test now by placing a yoke on the neck of the talmidim which neither our fathers nor we have had the strength to bear?

so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, that is, all the Goyim who have been called by my name,"

So we have decided unanimously to select men and send them to you with our dear friends Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul,

So we have sent Y'hudah and Sila, and they will confirm in person what we are writing.

Sha'ul wanted Timothy to accompany him; so he took him and did a b'rit-milah, because of the Jews living in those areas; for they all knew that his father had been a Greek.

So, after passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.

The jailer told Sha'ul, "The judges have sent word to release both of you. So come out, and go on your way in peace."

But the unbelieving Jews grew jealous; so they got together some vicious men from the riffraff hanging around in the market square, collected a crowd and started a riot in the city. They attacked Jason's house, hoping to bring Sha'ul and Sila out to the mob.

so that only after Jason and the others had posted bond did they let them go.

So he began holding discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and the "God-fearers," and in the market square every day with the people who happened to be there.

For as I was walking around, looking at your shrines, I even found an altar which had been inscribed, ‘To An Unknown God.' So, the one whom you are already worshipping in ignorance — this is the one I proclaim to you.

God did this so that people would look for him and perhaps reach out and find him although in fact, he is not far from each one of us,

So, since we are children of God, we shouldn't suppose that God's essence resembles gold, silver or stone shaped by human technique and imagination.

So Sha'ul left the meeting.

So he left them and went into the home of a "God-fearer" named Titius Justus, whose house was right next door to the synagogue.

So Sha'ul stayed there for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.

and when Sha'ul placed his hands on them, the Ruach HaKodesh came upon them; so that they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.

This went on for two years; so that everyone, both Jews and Greeks, living in the province of Asia heard the message about the Lord.

So he dispatched two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia; but he himself remained in the province of Asia for awhile.

Some of the crowd explained the situation to Alexander, whom the Jews had pushed to the front. So Alexander motioned for silence, hoping to make a defense speech to the people.