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Named at Acts 17:15: “those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens.” At 17:16–21, while Paul waits at Athens for Silas and Timothy, his spirit is provoked within him as he sees the city full of idols, and he reasons in the synagogue and in the marketplace; 17:21 says that all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. At 17:22 Paul stands in the middle of the Areopagus and says, “You men of Athens,” and at 18:1 Paul departs from Athens and comes to Corinth.

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1TH 3:1–5, engwebp
¹Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,
²and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
³that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
⁴For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
⁵For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
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ACT 17:10–15, engwebp
¹⁰The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
¹¹Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
¹²Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
¹³But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
¹⁴Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
¹⁵But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
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ACT 17:16–21, engwebp
¹⁶Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
¹⁷So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
¹⁸Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
¹⁹They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
²⁰For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
²¹Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
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ACT 17:22–34, engwebp
²²Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
²³For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
²⁴The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
²⁵He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
²⁶He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,
²⁷that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
²⁸‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
²⁹Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
³⁰The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
³¹because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
³²Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
³³Thus Paul went out from among them.
³⁴But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
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ACT 18:1–4, engwebp
¹After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth.
²He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
³and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
⁴He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Athens” by name and 6 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Athens (confidence 1000 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.

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Athens
OpenBible.info confidence 1000 of 1000 (current scholarship)
37.97185, 23.72674
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Athens” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (4) — At Beroea the Scriptures are examined daily; Paul is brought as far as Athens, At Athens Paul reasons and is brought to the Areopagus, Paul in the middle of the Areopagus; some join him and believe, Timothy sent by the writers left behind at Athens

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Acts 17:15 Open that verse

But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

Acts 17:16 Open that verse

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

Acts 17:22 Open that verse

Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

Acts 18:1 Open that verse

After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth.

1 Thessalonians 3:1 Open that verse

Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

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Entry: Athens (place-athens)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/athens
Current wording: Named at Acts 17:15: “those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens.” At 17:16–21, while Paul waits at Athens for Silas and Timothy, his spirit is provoked within him as he sees the city full of idols, and he reasons in the synagogue and in the marketplace; 17:21 says that all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. At 17:22 Paul stands in the middle of the Areopagus and says, “You men of Athens,” and at 18:1 Paul departs from Athens and comes to Corinth.
Cited evidence: 1TH 3:1–5, engwebp / ACT 17:10–15, engwebp / ACT 17:16–21, engwebp / ACT 17:22–34, engwebp / ACT 18:1–4, engwebp
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