Acts 17:5-13 ▼

5 But the Jews, having become jealous and having taken along certain wicked men of the market-loungers, and having collected a crowd, set the city in uproar. And having assailed the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring out to the people.

6 But not having found them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the city authorities, crying out, “These ones, having upset the world, have come here also,

7 whom Jason has received. And these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, proclaiming another to be king—Jesus!”

8 And they stirred up the crowd and the city authorities hearing these things.

9 And having taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

10 And the brothers sent away both Paul and Silas immediately by night to Berea, who, having arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

11 Now these, who were more noble than those in Thessalonica, received the word with all readiness, every day examining the Scriptures, if these things were so.

12 Therefore many of them indeed believed, and not a few of the prominent Grecian women and men.

13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God also was proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they came there also, stirring up and agitating the crowds.