Acts 17:14 - Forerunner Commentary

Acts 17:14

12 Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.

13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the crowds.

14 ^aThen immediately the brethren sent Paul away, to go to the sea; but both Silas and Timothy remained there.

15 So those who conducted Paul brought him to Athens; and ^areceiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.

The Philosophers at Athens

16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, ^ahis spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was¹ given over to idols.

17 Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there.

18 Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this² babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them ^aJesus and the resurrection.

19 And they took him and brought him to the¹ Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak?

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Definitions of words in Acts 17:14:

Brethren {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Go {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Sea {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Sent {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Silas {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Silas {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Silas {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Timothy {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Timothy {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Paul {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Paul {Hitchcock's Bible Names}

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