Acts 17:4

¹²Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

⁴But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews and part with the apostles.

⁴³Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

⁵⁰But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

⁵This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

²²Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

²⁴Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.

²³Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

⁴¹Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls. ⁴²They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

⁶Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”