This man was listening to Paul as he was speaking. When Paul stared intently at him and saw he had faith to be healed,

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was greatly upset because he saw the city was full of idols.

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,

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.’

But some people joined him and believed. Among them were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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

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

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.

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.

(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)

the commanding officer ordered Paul to be brought back into the barracks. He told them to interrogate Paul by beating him with a lash so that he could find out the reason the crowd was shouting at Paul in this way.

Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to report to him.”

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

just as it is written, “Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

But what was the divine response to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”

And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, and the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles, in him will the Gentiles hope.”

The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.