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These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.
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Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.
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But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the crowds.
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Then immediately the brethren sent Paul away, to go to the sea; but both Silas and Timothy remained there.
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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.
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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.
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Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there.
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Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods," because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.
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And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak?
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For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean."
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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.