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Acts 17 - Read-Along · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Acts chapter 17 Now when they had travelled through Amphipolis
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  and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a
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  synagogue of the Jews, and according to Paul's custom, he
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  went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from
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  the Scriptures, explaining and giving evidence that the Christ
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  had to suffer and rise again from the dead, saying, This
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  Jesus, whom I am proclaiming to you, is the Christ.
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  And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along
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  with a large number of the God fearing Greeks and a number of
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  the leading women. But the Jews, becoming jealous
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  and taking along some wicked men from the marketplace, formed a
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  mob and set the city in an uproar.
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  And attacking the House of Jason, they began seeking to
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  bring them out to the people. When they did not find them,
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  they began dragging Jason and some brethren before the city
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  authorities, shouting. These men who have upset the
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  world have come here also, and Jason has welcomed them, and
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  they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that
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  there is another king Jesus. They stirred up the crowd and
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  the city authorities who heard these things.
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  When they had received a pledge from Jason and the others, they
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  released them. The brethren immediately sent
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  Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived
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  they went into the synagogue of the Jews.
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  Now these were more noble minded than those in Thessalonica, but
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  they received the word with great eagerness, examining the
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  Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
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  Therefore many of them believed, along with a number of prominent
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  Greek women and men. When the Jews of Thessalonica
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  found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul and
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  Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up
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  the crowds. Then immediately the brethren
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  sent Paul out to go as far as the sea, and Silas and Timothy
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  remained there. Now those who escorted Paul
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  brought him as far as Athens, and receiving a command from for
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  Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.
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  Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was
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  being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of
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  idols. So he was reasoning in the
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  synagogue with the Jews and the God fearing Gentiles and in the
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  marketplace every day with those who happened to be present.
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  And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were
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  conversing with him. Some were saying, what would
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  this idle babbler wish to say? Others, he seems to be a
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  proclaimer of strange deities, because he was preaching Jesus
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  in the resurrection. And they took him and brought
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  him to the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new
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  teaching is which you are proclaiming?
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  For you are bringing some strange things to our ears.
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  So we want to know what these things mean.
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  Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to
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  spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing
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  something new. So Paul stood in the midst of
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  the Areopagus and said, Men of Athens, I observe that you are
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  very religious in all respects. For while I was passing through
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  and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an
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  altar with this inscription to an unknown God.
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  Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to
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  you. The God who made the world and
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  all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does
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  not dwell in temples made with hands, nor is He served by human
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  hands, as though He needed anything.
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  Since He Himself gives to all people life and breath, and all
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  things, And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live
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  on all the face of the earth, having determined their
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  appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,
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  that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him
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  and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.
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  For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own
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  poets have said. For we also are His children.
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  Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the
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  divine nature is like gold or silver, or stone, an image
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  formed by the art and thought of man.
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  Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now
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  declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,
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  because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in
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  righteousness through a man whom He has appointed, having
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  furnished proof to all men by raising him from the dead.
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  Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some
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  began to sneer, but others said, We shall hear you again
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  concerning this. So Paul went out of their midst,
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  but some men joined him and believed, among whom also were
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  Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others
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  with them.