Acts 17

Preview

Modern translations (external)

NIV, NKJV, and similar are copyrighted — we link to Bible Gateway instead of hosting them. Use the AI paraphrase above for a free modern reading.

Read this chapter in modern language

Our AI rewrites the passage in plain modern English while preserving the original meaning. Counts toward your daily message limit.

Sign in

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.

+29 verses

Continue reading Acts 17

Sign in (it's free) to read the full chapter with verse search, dark mode, AI paraphrase and saved progress across devices.

World English Bible is in the public domain. Text bundled with PentecostalGPT.