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,

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’

Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.

Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat,

but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!”

But the evil spirit replied to them, “I know about Jesus and I am acquainted with Paul, but who are you?”

Some of the crowd concluded it was about Alexander because the Jews had pushed him to the front. Alexander, gesturing with his hand, was wanting to make a defense before the public assembly.

If then Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint against someone, the courts are open and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges against one another there.

where he stayed for three months. Because the Jews had made a plot against him as he was intending to sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, and Timothy, as well as Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.

We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to the others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,

After we tore ourselves away from them, we put out to sea, and sailing a straight course, we came to Cos, on the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

We continued the voyage from Tyre and arrived at Ptolemais, and when we had greeted the brothers, we stayed with them for one day.

On the next day we left and came to Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality.”