1. When they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
2. According to his custom, Paul went in, and on three Sabbaths he lectured to them from the Scriptures,
3. explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I preach to you, is the Christ.”
4. Some of them were persuaded and joined with Paul and Silas, including a great crowd of devout Greeks and many leading women.
5. But the Jews who did not believe became jealous and, taking some evil men from the marketplace, gathered a crowd, stirred up the city, and attacked the house of Jason, trying to bring them out to the mob.