Acts 17:3

Acts 17:3

Preaching Christ at Thessalonica

1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to ^aThessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

2 Then Paul, as his custom was, ^awent in to them, and for three Sabbaths ^breasoned with them from the Scriptures,

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

4 ^aAnd some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and ^bSilas.

Assault on Jason’s House

5 But the Jews¹ who were not persuaded, becoming ^aenvious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of ^bJason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered, etc.—His preaching, it seems, was chiefly expository, and designed to establish from the Old Testament Scriptures (1) that the predicted Messiah was to be a suffering and dying, and therefore a rising, Messiah; (2) that this Messiah was none other than Jesus of Nazareth.

Acts 17:2-4

Paul, as his manner was—always to begin with the Jews.

went in unto them—In writing to the converts but a few months after this, he reminds them of the courage and superiority to indignity, for the Gospel's sake, which this required after the shameful treatment he had so lately experienced at Philippi (I Thessalonians 2:2).

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