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Acts 17:17

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

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In The King James Version

Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

In Context

16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

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Cross References

Proverbs 8:1Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

Jeremiah 6:11Therefore I am full of the LORD’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

Mark 16:15He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

Acts 8:2Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.

Acts 10:2a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Acts 14:1In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

Matthew Henry on Acts 17:17-22

Paul at Athens. 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. 17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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