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Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.

Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

So those who conducted Paul brought him to Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.

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.

For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean."

For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

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, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:

so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope 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 also some of your own poets have said, "For we are also His offspring.'

So, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for by occupation they were tentmakers.

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

But if it is a question of words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; for I do not want to be a judge of such matters."

So Paul still remained a good while. Then he took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea, for he had taken a vow.

for he vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the kingdom of God.

And this continued for two years, so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

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

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Diana, [fn] brought no small profit to the craftsmen.

Some therefore cried one thing and some another, for the assembly was confused, and most of them did not know why they had come together.

But when they found out that he was a Jew, all with one voice cried out for about two hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!"