Acts 17:1–9

¹And having journeyed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews. ²And according to Paul’s custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures, ³opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom I announce to you. ⁴And some of them believed, and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, and of the Greeks who worshipped, a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. ⁵But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to themselves certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people; ⁶and not having found them, dragged Jason and certain brethren before the politarchs, crying out, These men that have set the world in tumult, are come here also, ⁷whom Jason has received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying, that there is another king, Jesus. ⁸And they troubled the crowd and the politarchs when they heard these things. ⁹And having taken security of Jason and the rest, they let them go.