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All hail the power of Jesus' name,
let angels prostrate fall.
| Acts 17:9 | And when they had taken bail from Jason and the (tōn | τῶν | gen pl masc) others, they let them go. |
| Acts 17:10 | And the (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas off by night to Berea. When they got there, they went to the (tēn | τήν | acc sg fem) synagogue of the (tōn | τῶν | gen pl masc) Jews. |
| Acts 17:11 | These Jews were more open-minded than those (tōn | τῶν | gen pl masc) in Thessalonica, for they received the (ton | τόν | acc sg masc) message with all eagerness, examining the (tas | τάς | acc pl fem) scriptures every day to see if these things were so. |
| Acts 17:12 | So many of them believed, with not a few prominent Greek women and men. |
| Acts 17:13 | But when the (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) Jews from Thessalonica learned that also in Berea the (ho | ὁ | nom sg masc) word of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) God was proclaimed by Paul, they came there too, inciting and stirring up the (tous | τούς | acc pl masc) crowds. |
| Acts 17:14 | Then immediately the (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) brothers sent Paul away, to go as far as to the (tēn | τήν | acc sg fem) sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there. |
| Acts 17:15 | Those (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left. |
| Acts 17:16 | Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred up within him on seeing the (tēn | τήν | acc sg fem) city full of idols. |
| Acts 17:17 | So he reasoned in the (tē | τῇ | dat sg fem) synagogue with the (tois | τοῖς | dat pl masc) Jews and the (tois | τοῖς | dat pl masc) worshippers, and in the (tē | τῇ | dat sg fem) marketplace every day with those (tous | τούς | acc pl masc) who happened to be there. |
| Acts 17:18 | Also some of the (tōn | τῶν | gen pl masc) Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange gods,” for he was announcing the good news about Jesus and the (tēn | τήν | acc sg fem) resurrection. |
| Acts 17:19 | And they took hold of him and brought him to the (ton | τόν | acc sg masc) Areopagus, saying, “May we know what is this new teaching being presented by you? |
| Acts 17:20 | For you bring some strange things to our ears, so we want to know what these things mean.” |
| Acts 17:21 | (Now all the Athenians and the (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) foreigners living there used to spend their time in nothing else than to tell or to hear something new.) |
| Acts 17:22 | So Paul, standing in the midst of the (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are a very devout people. |
| Acts 17:23 | For as I went around and observed your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, ‘To an unknown god.’ So what you worship without knowing, this I proclaim to you. |
| Acts 17:24 | The (ho | ὁ | nom sg masc) God who (ho | ὁ | nom sg masc) made the (ton | τόν | acc sg masc) world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, |
| Acts 17:25 | nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and everything. |
| Acts 17:26 | And he made from one man every race of men to live on all the face of the (tēs | τῆς | gen sg fem) earth, having determined allotted epochs and the (tas | τάς | acc pl fem) fixed boundaries of the (tēs | τῆς | gen sg fem) places where they would live, |
| Acts 17:27 | that they should seek God, if perhaps that they might grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from each one of us. |
| Acts 17:28 | ‘For in him we live and move about and exist,’ as even some of (tōn | τῶν | gen pl masc) your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) offspring.’ |
| Acts 17:29 | So since we are the offspring of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) God, we ought not to think that the (to | τό | acc sg neut) divine being is like an image carved in gold or silver or stone by human skill and imagination. |
| Acts 17:30 | So then, God overlooked the (tous | τούς | acc pl masc) times of (tēs | τῆς | gen sg fem) ignorance, but now he orders men to repent, all of them in all places, |
| Acts 17:31 | because he has appointed a day on which he will judge the (tēn | τήν | acc sg fem) world in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed, having provided proof to all by raising him from the dead.” |
| Acts 17:32 | Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) mocked, but others (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) said, “We will hear you again about this.” |
| Acts 17:33 | So Paul departed from their midst. |