Wednesday, 7 June 2023
Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there. Acts 17:17
The NKJV, though cleaning up the K…
Thursday, 8 June 2023
Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this babbler want to say?”
Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to t…
Friday, 9 June 2023
And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak? Acts 17:19
The previous verse noted the questioning of the Epicureans and Stoics …
Saturday, 10 June 2023
“For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.” Acts 17:20
In the previous verse, Paul was taken to the Areopagus and asked what the new te…
Sunday, 11 June 2023
For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Acts 17:21
The translation is more succinct, saying, “Now all At…
Monday, 12 June 2023
Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; Acts 17:22
A more literal translation would say, “And Paul, having stood …
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
“for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:
TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I p…
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
“God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Acts 17:24
Again, as with the previous verse, the NKJV cleans up the…
Thursday, 15 June 2023
“Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. Acts 17:25
The words more correctly read, “nor is he attended by humans’ han…
Friday, 16 June 2023
“And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, Acts 17:26
In the previou…
Saturday, 17 June 2023
“so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; Acts 17:27
More literally, the verse reads, “to seek the Lord, …
Sunday, 18 June 2023
“for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ Acts 17:28
Paul has stated that God has ordained the boundaries of the nati…
Monday, 19 June 2023
“Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. Acts 17:29
A more literal tran…
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, Acts 17:30
A closer translation would be, “Therefore, indeed, having overlooked these times of ignoran…
Wednesday, 21 June 2023
“because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” Acts 17:31
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