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For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."

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.

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.

'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.'

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city."

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."

Sha'ul, having stayed after this yet many days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Aram, with Priscilla and Aquila with him. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

for he powerfully refuted the Yehudim, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Yeshua was the Messiah.

He entered into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning the kingdom of God.

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Yeshua, both Yehudim and Yevanim.

Having sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.

But when they perceived that he was a Yehudi, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn't be able to give an account of this commotion."

After the uproar had ceased, Sha'ul sent for the talmidim, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Yehudim as he was about to set sail for Aram, he determined to return through Macedonia.

But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.