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ACTS CHAPTER 17
Act_17:1-4 Paul preaching in the synagogue at Thessalonica, some
believe, both Jews and Greeks.
Act_17:5-11 The unbelieving Jews raise an uproar.
Act_17:10-12 Paul and Silas are sent to Berea: the Berean Jews are
commended for searching the Scriptures.
Act_17:13-15 The Jews of Thessalonica follow and drive Paul from Berea.
Act_17:16-21 At Athens Paul disputing is carried before the court
of Areopagus.
Act_17:22-31 He preacheth the living God, to the Athenians
unknown: his general call to repentance; the
resurrection of Christ; and his coming to judgment.
Act_17:32-34 Some mock, others believe.
Araphipolis, a city near to Philippi; so called, because the sea came up to it on both sides.
Apollonia, a city near to Thessalonica.
This
Thessalonica was one of the chiefest cities of Macedonia: unto the church in this place St. Paul wrote two of his Epistles. This city was built by Philip, in memory of a victory he obtained over the Thessali.
Where was a synagogue of the Jews: it seems that there was no synagogue in either of the other places, but that the Jews of the other cities resorted unto the synagogue in this, all these three cities being in Macedonia. The sending away of Paul and Silas, Act_16:39, to gratify the mad multitude, was a means to bring the word of salvation to those places.