out of jail! escorted out by magistrates one last visit at lydia’s house
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Out of Jail!
• Escorted out by magistrates
• One last visit at Lydia’s house
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Was Paul Was Paul Headed To Headed To
Rome?Rome?
In A.D. 49, the Roman Emperor Claudius expelled the Jews from
the city of Rome.
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AmphipolisAmphipolis&&
ApolloniaApollonia
Probably skipped by Paul because there were no synagogues there.
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AmphipolisAmphipolis&&
ApolloniaApollonia
The Lion Of
Amphilipolis
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AmphipolisAmphipolis&&
ApolloniaApollonia
…came to Thessalonica where there was a Jewish synagogue. (17:1)
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Thessalonica:Thessalonica:22ndnd Largest City Largest City In both Ancient In both Ancient
& Modern & Modern GreeceGreece
1st Century Population – 200,000
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Paul in ThessalonicaPaul in Thessalonica
• Taught on 3 Sabbath days
• Reasoned …from the Scriptures
• Proved that Jesus is the Christ
• Some Jews & many God-fearers responded
• No pagans (compare 1 Thess. 1:9)
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Paul in ThessalonicaPaul in Thessalonica
• Jews became jealous (17:5; 13:45)
• Rounded up bad characters from the agora (5)
• Jason (Joshua in Hebrew) was host
• These men have caused trouble all over the world…. (6)
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Archeology Archeology and and
The BibleThe Bible• Politarch (“city
officials”) does not appear in any Greek literature.
• Found on inscription on an arch in Thessalonica in 1835
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On To Berea!
• Escaped at night (10)
• Came to Berea
• An out-of-the-way town
• Began in Synagogue
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The The Noble Noble
BereansBereansThe Bereans were of more noble character…for they received the
message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. (11)
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The The Noble Noble
BereansBereans
• Many of the Jews believed as did a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men. (13)
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Out Out of of
BereaBerea• Ship to
Athens
• Paul left alone there
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Paul Paul in in
AthensAthens
• Athens was a small university town of 25,000 people – more concerned with ideas than with commerce.
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Petronius Roman Consuldied A.D. 66
It is easier to find a god than a man in
Athens!
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Paul Paul in in
AthensAthens
• Paul was waiting for Silas and Timothy (15-16)
• “Greatly distressed” by idols (16)• Synagogue & Marketplace (17)
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EpicureansEpicureans
• Epicurus (340-270 B.C.)
• No afterlife
• Gods are uninvolved
• Eat, drink, be merry!
• Similar to today’s secularists
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StoicsStoics• Zeno (340-265 B.C.)• Met in Stoa in Athens• Logos/Universal Reason• Accept fate!• Divine spark in all• Today’s New Agers
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Paul’s Debates in AthensPaul’s Debates in Athens
• Babbler – “seed-picker” (18)
• Foreign gods – Jesus and “Resurrection” (18)
• Taken to the Areopagus which met in the Roman forum (agora)
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Paul Paul to to
The AreopagusThe Areopagus
• Acknowledged their idols – altar to the “unknown god” (19-23)
• God created everything (24-26)• God is very near (27-29)• God judges/Call to repent (30-31)
(From: Dennis Gaertner, Acts, pp. 275-280)
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Quotes in Paul’s SermonQuotes in Paul’s Sermon
• In him we live and move and have our being (Epimenides – 600 B.C.)
• We are his offspring (Aratus – 315-240 B.C.)
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When they heard about the
resurrection of the dead, some of them
sneered (32)
1 Corinthians 15:12-13
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Greeks Greeks andand
ResurrectionResurrection
The Greeks believed in the immortality of the soul but not in the resurrection of the body
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ResponseResponseinin
AthensAthens
• Very little response• Some sneered• Some wanted to hear more• Dionysius (a member of the
Areopagus) and a woman named Damaris responded and others
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Paul’s different Paul’s different approaches to Preachingapproaches to Preaching
• To Jews in a synagogue in Antioch (13)
• To pagans in Lystra (14)
• To philosophers in Athens (17)
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Outline of ActsOutline of Acts
1:8