3. declaring openly and proposing that it behooved the Christ to have suffered and risen again from the dead and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is the Christ.
4. And some of them believed and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the noble women not a few.
5. But the disobedient Jews, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people.
6. And when they did not find them, they brought Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down have come here also,
7. whom Jason has received, and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
8. And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city when they heard these things.
9. And when they had taken security of Jason and of the others, they let them go.
10. And the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night unto Berea, who when they got there went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all diligence and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12. Therefore many of them believed, also of honourable women who were Greeks and of men, not a few.
13. But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the people.
14. And then immediately the brethren sent Paul to go away towards the sea, but Silas and Timothy abode there still.
15. And those that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens; and receiving an order from him unto Silas and Timothy to come unto him as soon as possible, they departed.
16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him when he saw the city completely given over to idolatry.
17. Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout persons and in the market daily with those that he met with.
18. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? others, He seems to be a setter forth of new gods, because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection.
19. And they took him and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is, of which thou speakest?
20. For thou bringest certain new things to our ears; we desire, therefore, to know what these things mean.