Gary Gleans

                                                                                  Acts 17:16-21 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.   So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.   Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.   And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.”   Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.   Paul begins his time in Athens by ob

                                                                                       Acts 17:10-15 The brothers   immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men. But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds. Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there. Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed. The missionary team escaped from Thessalonica and came to a neighboring city called Be

                                                                             Acts 17:1-9 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.   And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,   explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”   And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.   But the Jews   were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.   And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come her

                                                                                  Acts 16:35-40 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the police, saying, “Let those men go.”   And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Therefore come out now and go in peace.” But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and take us out.” The police reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens.   So they came and apologized to them. And they took them out and asked them to leave the city.   So they went out of the prison and visited Lydia. And when they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them and departed.   There are times when as Christians we will be mistreated and discriminated against.  We have been warned by both Jesus and Paul t