33And taking them along, the same hour of the night, he washed their stripes; and was immersed, himself and all his, immediately. 34And having brought them up into his house, he set food before them, and rejoiced, with all his house, believing in God.
35And when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying: Let those men go. 36And the keeper of the prison reported these words to Paul: The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore depart, and go in peace.
37But Paul said to them: They beat us openly, uncondemned, being Romans, and cast us into prison; and now do they send us forth secretly? Nay verily; but let them come themselves and bring us out.
38And the sergeants reported these words to the magistrates; and they were afraid, when they heard that they were Romans. 39And they came and besought them, and bringing them out, entreated them to depart out of the city.
40And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia; and seeing the brethren they exhorted them, and departed.
XVII. And passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews. 2And Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3opening them, and setting forth that the Christ must suffer, and rise again from the dead; and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom I preach to you. 4And some of them believed, and joined themselves to[4] Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
5But the Jews, moved with envy[5], having taken to them, of the idlers in the market-place, certain vicious men, and having gathered a crowd, set the city in an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them unto the people. 6And not finding them, they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the rulers of the city, crying: These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. 7Whom Jason has received; and all these are acting contrary to the decrees of Cæsar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.
8And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. 9And having taken security of Jason, and of the others, they let them go.
10And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Beroea; who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily whether these things were so.
12Many of them therefore believed; and of honorable Grecian women and men, not a few. 13But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that also at Beroea the word of God was preached by Paul, they came, stirring up the people there also. 14And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to journey as upon the sea; but Silas and Timothy abode there still. 15And they who conducted Paul brought him to Athens; and having received a command to Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.