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But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do yourself no harm: for we are all here.

But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go.

But Paul said to them, They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Romans, and have cast us into prison; and do they now cast us out secretly? No truly; but let them come themselves and bring us out.

But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took to them certain vile men 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.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed of Paul at Berea also, they came there likewise, stirring up and troubling the multitudes.

But those that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens: and receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him with all speed, they departed.

(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.)

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commands men that they should all everywhere repent:

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, We will hear you concerning this yet again.

But certain men cleaved to him, and believed: among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, Don't be afraid, but speak and don't hold your peace:

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment-seat,

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 villany, O you Jews, there would be a reason that I should bear with you:

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.

And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

but taking his leave of them, and saying, I will return again to you if God wills, he set sail from Ephesus.

and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him to them, and expounded to him the way of God more accurately.

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.