017:002 Paul--following his usual custom--betook himself to it,
and for three successive Sabbaths reasoned with them
from the Scriptures,
017:003 which he clearly explained, pointing out that it had been
necessary for the Christ to suffer and rise again from the dead,
and insisting, "The Jesus whom I am announcing to you
is the Christ."
017:004 Some of the people were won over, and attached themselves
to Paul and Silas, including many God-fearing Greeks and not
a few gentlewomen of high rank.
017:005 But the jealousy of the Jews was aroused, and, calling to
their aid some ill-conditioned and idle fellows, they got
together a riotous mob and filled the city with uproar.
They then attacked the house of Jason and searched for Paul
and Silas, to bring them out before the assembly of people.
017:006 But, failing to find them, they dragged Jason and some of the other
brethren before the magistrates of the city, loudly accusing them.
"These men," they said, "who have raised a tumult throughout
the Empire, have come here also.
017:007 Jason has received them into his house; and they all set Caesar's
authority at defiance, declaring that there is another Emperor--
one called Jesus."
017:008 Great was the excitement among the crowd, and among the magistrates
of the city, when they heard these charges.
017:009 They required Jason and the rest to find substantial bail,
and after that they let them go.
017:010 The brethren at once sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea,
and they, on their arrival, went to the synagogue of the Jews.
017:011 The Jews at Beroea were of a nobler disposition than those
in Thessalonica, for they very readily received the Message,