and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar’s decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!”

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”

He motioned to them with his hand to be quiet and then related how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell James and the brothers these things,” and then he left and went to another place.

Then when Paul noticed that part of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, he shouted out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead!”