Mission to Berea
AD 48, lasting 1 month traditional (Jones)
- Passage
- Acts 17:10-15
- Places
- Berea, Thessalonica, Athens
- Before
- Uproar in Thessalonica
Participants
Taking part, as Theographic records them, most often named first.
Places
Where it happens. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.
- likely location: Berea
- likely location: Thessalonica
- likely location: Athens
Every verse
All 6 verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.
Acts6 verses
- 17:10
As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
- 17:11
Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
- 17:12
As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.
- 17:13
But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
- 17:14
The brothers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.
- 17:15
Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then returned with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.