Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Acts 17:1-15. Let’s go!
Acts 17:1-5 (NIV)
1 When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
2 As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
3 explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he said.
4 Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God-fearing Greeks and not a few prominent women.
5 But the Jews were jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob and started a riot in the city. They rushed to Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd.
On verses 1-5: Here’s further proof that when Paul said, “Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles” (Acts 13:46), Paul was only talking about their mission in the city of Pisidian Antioch but didn’t mean he was giving up on reaching his own Jewish people. For here in Acts 17:1-4 we see Paul, “as his custom was” (v2), going into the Jewish synagogue, this time in Thessalonica. There Paul shows through the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah and that this Messiah was destined to die and rise again from the grave. And there, some Jews as well as a large number of Greek men and influential women find faith in Christ.