A   As they made their iorney thorow Amphipolis / and Appolonia / they came to Thessalonica where was a synagoge of the Iewes. And Paul as his maner was / went in vnto them / ∧ thre saboth doyes declared oute of the scripture vnto them / openynge ∧ allegynge that Christ must nedes have suffred ∧ rysen agayne from deeth / and that this Iesus was Christ / whom (sayde he) I preache to you. And some of them beleved and came and companyed with Paul and Sylas:

also of the honourable Grekes a greate multitude / and of the chefe wemen / not a feawe.

B   But the Iewes which beleved not / havynge indignaci&obar; / toke vnto th&ebar; evyll men which were vagabondes / and gadered a company / and set all the cite on a roore / and made asaute vnto the housse of Iason / ∧ sought to bringe th&ebar; out to the people. But when they founde them not / they drue Iason and certayne brethren vnto the heedes of the cite cryinge: these that trouble the worlde / are come hydder also / which Iason hath receaved prevely. And these all do contrary to the elders of Cesar / affirmynge another kynge / one Iesus. And they troubled the people and the officers of the cite when they hearde these thinges. And when they were sufficiently answered of Iason / ∧ of the other / they let th&ebar; goo.

And the brethren immediatly sent awaye Paul ∧ Sylas by nyght vnto Berrea. Which when they were come thyther / they entred into þe; synagoge of the Iewes. C   These were the noblest of byrthe amonge th&ebar; of Thessalonia which receaved the worde &wt; all diligence of mynde / ∧ searched ^note þe; scriptures dayly whether those thing&es; were even so. And many of th&ebar; beleved: also of worshipfull wem&ebar; which were Grekes / ∧ of men not a feawe. When the Iewes of Thessalonia had knowledge that þe; worde of God was preached of Paul at Berrea / they came there and moved the people. And then by ∧ by þe; brethr&ebar; sent awaye Paul to goo as it were to þe; see: but Sylas ∧ Timotheus

abode there still. And they that gyded Paul / brought him vnto Attens / ∧ receaved a c&obar;maundment vnto Sylas ∧ Timotheus for to come to him at once / and came their waye.

D   Whyll Paul wayted for them at Attens / his sprete was moved in him / ^note to se the cite geven to worshippinge of ymages. Then he disputed in the synagoge &wt; the Iewes / ∧ with the devout persones / and in the market dayly with th&ebar; that came vnto him. Certayne philosophers of þe; Epicures ∧ of þe; stoyckes / disputed with him. And some ther were which sayde: what will this babler saye. Other sayd: he semeth to be a tydynges bringer of newe devyls / because he preached vnto them Iesus and the resurreccion. E   And they toke him / and brought him into Marsestrete sayinge: maye we not knowe what this newe doctrine wher of thou speakest / is? For thou bringest straunge tydynges to oure eares. We wolde knowe therfore what these thinges meane. For all the Attenians ∧ straungers which were there / gave th&ebar; selves to nothinge els / but ether to tell or to heare newe tydynges.

F   Paul stode in the myddes of Marse strete ∧ sayde: ye men of Attens / I perceave that in all thinges ye are to supersticious. For as I passed by and behelde the maner how ye worship youre godd&es; / I founde an aultre wher in was written: vnto þe; vnknowen god. ^noteWhom ye then ignor&abar;tly worship / him shewe I vnto you. God that made the worlde ∧ all that are in it / seynge that he is Lorde of heven ∧ erth /

he dwelleth not in temples made with hondes / ^note nether is worshipped with mennes hondes / as though he neded of eny thinge / seinge he him selfe geveth lyfe and breeth to all men every where / and hath made of one bloud all nacions of men / for to dwell on all the face of the erthe / and hath assigned / before how longe tyme / and also the endes of their inhabitacion / that they shuld seke God / yf they myght fele and fynde him / though he be not farre from every one of vs. For in him we lyve / move and have oure beynge / as certayne of youre awne Poetes sayde. For we are also his generacion. For as moche then as we are the generacion of God / we ought not to thynke that the godhed is lyke vnto golde / silver or stone / graven by crafte and ymaginacion of man.

G   And the tyme of this ignoraunce God regarded not: but now he byddeth all men every where repent / because he hath apoynted a daye / in the which he will iudge the worlde acordynge to ryghtewesses / by that man whom he hath apoynted / and hath offered faith ^note to all men / after that he had raysed him from deeth.

When they hearde of þe; resurreccion from deeth / some mocked / and other sayde: we will heare the agayne of this matter. So Paul departed from amonge them. Howbeit certayne men clave vnto Paul and beleved / ^note amonge the which was Dionysius a senatour / and a woman named Damaris / ∧ other with them.

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