explaining and demonstrating (A)that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.” (B)And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and (C)Silas.

Assault on Jason’s House

But the Jews [a]who were not persuaded, [b]becoming (D)envious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of (E)Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

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  1. Acts 17:5 NU omits who were not persuaded
  2. Acts 17:5 M omits becoming envious

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