Acts 17:17 Cross References - BBE

¹⁷ So he had discussions in the Synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles, and every day in the market-place with those who were there.

²⁰ Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; ²¹ Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: ²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

¹ Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding? ² At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place; ³ Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud: ⁴ I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.

³⁴ Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

¹¹ For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.

¹ And seeing great masses of people he went up into the mountain; and when he was seated his disciples came to him. ² And with these words he gave them teaching, saying,

¹⁵ And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone.

³ So, whatever you have said in the dark, will come to men's hearing in the light, and what you have said secretly inside the house, will be made public from the house-tops.

² And God-fearing men put Stephen's body in its last resting-place, making great weeping over him.

²⁰ And straight away, in the Synagogues, he was preaching Jesus as the Son of God.

² A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.

¹⁶ And Paul, getting up and making a sign with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you who have the fear of God, give ear.

¹ Now in Iconium they went together to the Synagogue of the Jews and gave such teaching that a great number of Jews and Greeks had faith. ² But those Jews who had not the faith, made the minds of the Gentiles bitter against the brothers. ³ So they kept there for a long time, taking heart in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace by causing signs and wonders to be done by their hands. ⁴ But there was a division among the people of the town; some were on the side of the Jews and some on the side of the Apostles.

² And Paul, as he generally did, went in to them, and on three Sabbath days had discussions with them from the holy Writings, ³ Saying to them clearly and openly that Christ had to be put to death and come back to life again; and that this Jesus, whom, he said, I am preaching to you, is the Christ. ⁴ And some of them had faith, and were joined to Paul and Silas; and a number of the God-fearing Greeks, and some of the chief women.

² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,

⁵ Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.