But the Jewswhichbelieved not, movedwithenvy, tookuntothemcertainlewdfellows of the basersort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bringthem out to the people.
And whentheyfoundthem not, theydrewJason and certainbrethrenunto the rulers of the city, crying, Thesethathaveturned the worldupsidedown are comehitheralso;
Theseweremorenoblethanthose in Thessalonica, in thattheyreceived the wordwith all readiness of mind, and searched the scripturesdaily, whetherthosethingswere so.
Thencertainphilosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And somesaid, Whatwillthisbabbler say? othersome, He seemeth to be a setterforth of strangegods: because he preacheduntothemJesus, and the resurrection.
For as I passed by, and beheldyourdevotions, I found an altarwiththisinscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whomtherefore ye ignorantlyworship, him declare I unto you.
And hathmade of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hathdetermined the timesbeforeappointed, and the bounds of theirhabitation;
Forasmuchthen as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to thinkthat the Godhead is likeuntogold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’sdevice.
Because he hathappointed a day, in the which he willjudge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hathordained; whereof he hathgivenassuranceunto all men, in that he hathraised him from the dead.