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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.  
6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, a“These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.  
7 Jason has harbored them, and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, asaying there is another king—Jesus.”  
8 And they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things.
9 So when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

Ministering at Berea

10 Then athe brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.  
11 These were more1 fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and asearched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.  
12 Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Acts 17:4

consorted—cast in their lot.

with Paul and Silas—Compare II Corinthians 8:5.

of the chief women—female proselytes of distinction. From the First Epistle to the Thessalonians it appears that the converts were nearly all Gentiles; not only such as had before been proselytes, who would be gained in the synagogue, but such as up to that time had been idolaters (I Thessalonians 1:9-10). During his stay, while Paul supported himself by his own labor (I Thessalonians 2:9; II Thessalonians 3:7-9), he received supplies once and again from the Philippians, of which he makes honorable acknowledgment (Philippians 4:15-16).



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).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 17:4:

Isaiah 14:1
Acts 17:1
Acts 17:11
1 Thessalonians 1:9
1 Thessalonians 2:9

 

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