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

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 since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

The Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent,

because I am with you, and no one will assault you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.”

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

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul went through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples there

So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

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

So after sending two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed on for a while in the province of Asia.

He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business.

Even some of the provincial authorities who were his friends sent a message to him, urging him not to venture into the theater.

So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together.

For we are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause we can give to explain this disorderly gathering.”

After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them and saying farewell, he left to go to Macedonia.

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.

But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, put his arms around him, and said, “Do not be distressed, for he is still alive!”

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