12Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
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Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-15)In these verses we have, I. Paul and Silas removing to Berea, and employed in preaching the gospel there, Acts 17:10. They had proceeded so far at Thessalonica that the foundations of a church were laid, and others were raised up to carry on the work that was begun, against whom the rulers and people were not so much prejudiced as they were against Paul and Silas; and therefore when the storm rose…
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