1. Then they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
2. As usual, Paul went to the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
3. explaining and showing that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead: “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah.”
4. Then some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, including a great number of God-fearing Greeks, as well as a number of the leading women.