d associated
themselves with Paul and Silas; and of the religious Greeks a vast
multitude, and of the wives of the first people not a few. (5)But the
unbelieving Jews, roused to a fit of zeal, and taking some of the
lowest vulgar men of vile characters, and raising a mob, set the city
in an uproar, and besetting the house of Jason, sought them to bring
them unto the people. (6)But not finding them there, they dragged Jason
and certain brethren to the city magistrates, roaring out, These are
the men who are movers of sedition through the world, and are come in
hither; (7)whom Jason has entertained in his house: and the practice of
all these fellows is in direct opposition to all Caesar's ordinances,
for they affirm that another is king, one Jesus. (8)And they greatly
agitated the people and the city magistrates when they heard these
things. (9)So after taking sufficient security from Jason and the rest,
they dismissed them.

(10)Then the disciples immediately by night sent off both Paul and
Silas to Berea; who were no sooner arrived, than they went into the
synagogue of the Jews. (11)Now these were more liberally minded men
than those of Thessalonica, for they received the word with all
readiness of mind, daily, examining the Scriptures if these things were
really so. (12)Then many of them truly believed: and of the Grecian
proselyte women of respectability, and of the men not a few.

(13)But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that at Berea also the word
of God was preached by Paul, they came thither, and stirred up the
populace. (14)Then immediately on this the brethren sent off Paul, to
go as if by sea: but Silas and Timothy abode there still. (15)And those
who conduced Paul brought him as far as Athens, and receiving an
injunction for Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as
speedily as possible, they departed. (16)Now while Paul waited for
them at Athens, his spirit within him was greatly grieved, beholding
the city so devoted to idolatry. (17)Therefore he reasoned in the
synagogue with the Jews, and those who worshipped there, and in the
forum every day with those he happened to meet.

(18)Then certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him:
and some said, What will this chattering fellow say? but others, He
seemeth to be a preacher of foreign deities, because he preached to
them Jesus and the resurrection. (19)So they took him and led him to
the hill of Mars, saying, May we know what this