explaining and demonstrating that it was necessary for the Christ[a] to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.”[b] And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, and also a large number of God-fearing Greeks and not a few of the prominent women.

But the Jews were filled with jealousy and, taking along some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace and forming a mob, threw the city into an uproar. And attacking Jason’s house, they were looking for them to bring them[c] out to the popular assembly.

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  1. Acts 17:3 Or “Messiah”
  2. Acts 17:3 Or “Messiah”
  3. Acts 17:5 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer(A) and rise from the dead.(B) “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah,”(C) he said. Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas,(D) as did a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.

But other Jews were jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob and started a riot in the city.(E) They rushed to Jason’s(F) house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd.[a]

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  1. Acts 17:5 Or the assembly of the people