imagined a town with that many idols and temples. So Paul is greatly “distressed,” even annoyed. Paul’s ministry plan is interesting. In most towns he would go to the Jewish synagogues and spend some time there and only then go into the agora, or marketplace. Here, however, he proclaims the gospel in both at the same time, probably in the synagogues on Sabbaths and then in the marketplace during the week, reaching out to Jews, God-fearers, and Greeks together. Yet Luke never discusses the results
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