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Acts 17:15

Acts chapter 17 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timothy that they should come to him with all speed, they departed.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timothy that they should come to him with all speed, they departed.

Context

v.14And then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul to go as far as to the sea: and Silas and Timothy abode there still.

v.15This passage

v.16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Timothy 4:20

    Erastus remained at Corinth: but Trophimus I left at Miletus sick.

  • Acts 17:21

    (Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)

  • Acts 18:5

    But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

  • Titus 3:12

    When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, give diligence to come unto me to Nicopolis: for there I have determined to winter.

  • 1 Thessalonians 3:1

    Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone;

  • Acts 17:16

    Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols.