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Text -- Acts 17:1-9 (NET)

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Paul and Silas at Thessalonica
17:1 After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. 17:2 Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures, 17:3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying, “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.” 17:4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women. 17:5 But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly. 17:6 When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming, “These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too, 17:7 and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar’s decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!” 17:8 They caused confusion among the crowd and the city officials who heard these things. 17:9 After the city officials had received bail from Jason and the others, they released them.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Amphipolis a city located between Thessalonica and Philippi on the Strymon river
 · Apollonia a city in Macedonia 48 km. from Amphipolis and 60 from Thessalonica (YC)
 · Caesar a title held by Roman emperors
 · Greek the language used by the people of Greece
 · Jason a Christian man in Thessalonica to whom Paul sent greetings
 · Jews the people descended from Israel
 · Paul a man from Tarsus who persecuted the church but became a missionary and writer of 13 Epistles
 · Silas a man who went with Peter and Paul on separate missionary journeys
 · Thessalonica a town of Macedonia on the Thermaic Gulf (Gulf of Salonika)


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Thessalonica | MACEDONIA | Silas | Jason | TROPHIMUS | ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 13-OUTLINE | ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 8-12 | ATHENS | THESSALONIANS, THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE | Paul | TRUTH | Minister | Synagogue | JASON (1) | JASON (2) | Amphipolis | Apollonia | Rabble | Law | Peace | more
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NET Notes: Act 17:1 See the note on synagogue in 6:9.

NET Notes: Act 17:2 Although the word διελέξατο (dielexato; from διαλέγομαι...

NET Notes: Act 17:3 See the note on Christ in 2:31. The identification of the Messiah with Jesus indicates Paul was proclaiming the fulfillment of messianic promise.

NET Notes: Act 17:4 Grk “not a few”; this use of negation could be misleading to the modern English reader, however, and so has been translated as “quit...

NET Notes: Act 17:5 BDAG 223 s.v. δῆμος 2 has “in a Hellenistic city, a convocation of citizens called together for the purpose of transac...

NET Notes: Act 17:6 Throughout the world. Note how some of those present had knowledge of what had happened elsewhere. Word about Paul and his companions and their messag...

NET Notes: Act 17:7 Acting…saying…Jesus. The charges are serious, involving sedition (Luke 23:2). If the political charges were true, Rome would have to react...

NET Notes: Act 17:8 L&N 37.93 defines πολιτάρχης (politarch") as “a public official responsible for admin...

NET Notes: Act 17:9 That is, “a payment” or “a pledge of security” (BDAG 472 s.v. ἱκανός 1) for which “bail&#...

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