Acts 17:1–9

¹Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.↗

²Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,↗

³explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”↗

⁴Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.↗

⁵But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.↗

⁶When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,↗

⁷whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”↗

⁸The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.↗

⁹When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.↗