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And travelling through Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to Thessalonica,
where was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 according to And the custom with Paul
he entered to them, and on Sabbaths thr ee lectured to them from the
Scriptures. 3 opening up and setting before them that the Christ it behoved
to suffer and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is was the
Christ, Jesus, whom I announce to you. 4 And some of them were
persuaded and threw in their lot with Paul and Silas, both of the
worshipping Greeks multitude a much and of women the chief not a few. 5 But
becoming jealous the Jews and taking aside of the loungers in the
marketplace the men and some wicked and having gathered a crowd disturbed
the city, and coming on the house of Jason sought them to bring forward to
the mob; 6 not finding but them they dragged
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Jason
and some brothers to the politarchs, crying, the ones the inhabited
earth having turned upside down these men also here have arrived, 7 whom
has received Jason; and these all contrary to the decrees of Caesar act,
king another saying to be Jesus. 8 And they troubled the crowd and
the politarchs hearing these things; 9 and taking the surety from Jason and
the rest released them. 10 And the brothers immediately through the night
sent forth but Paul and Silas to Beroea, who having arrived into the
synagogue of the Jews went; 11 and these were more noble than the
ones in Thessalonica, who received the word with all eagerness,
daily examining the Scriptures if have these things so. 12 Many therefore
of them believed, and of the Greek women honourable and of men not a few.
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