6. When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city magistrates, shouting, “These people who have been creating a disturbance all over the world have now come here,
7. and Jason has welcomed them. They all act in opposition to the decrees of Caesar and claim instead that there is another king, Jesus.”
8. They stirred up the crowd and the city magistrates who, upon hearing these charges,
9. took a surety payment from Jason and the others before releasing them.
10. The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas to Beroea during the night. Upon arrival they went to the synagogue of the Jews.
11. These Jews were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all willingness and examined the scriptures daily to determine whether these things were so.
12. Many of them became believers, as did not a few of the influential Greek women and men.
13. But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God had now been proclaimed by Paul in Beroea also, they came there too to cause a commotion and stir up the crowds.
14. So the brothers at once sent Paul on his way to the seacoast, while Silas and Timothy remained behind.
15. After Paul’s escorts had taken him to Athens, they came away with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
16. While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he grew exasperated at the sight of the city full of idols.
17. So he debated in the synagogue with the Jews and with the worshipers, and daily in the public square with whoever happened to be there.