As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Parallel translations
- WEB The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
- KJV And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
- ESV The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.
- NKJV Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.
- NASB The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.
- NLT That very night the believers sent Paul and Silas to Berea. When they arrived there, they went to the Jewish synagogue.
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The believers sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, where they went to the synagogue.
Overview
For safety, the church spirited the missionaries off under cover of darkness. Yet Paul did not retreat from mission; he immediately resumed preaching in the next city's synagogue. The pattern of fleeing persecution only to keep proclaiming Christ shows a courage rooted in calling rather than circumstance.
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- Acts 17:2As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
- Acts 17:13–14But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
- 1 Th 2:2As you are aware, we had already endured suffering and shameful treatment in Philippi. But in the face of strong opposition, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God.
- Acts 20:4Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.
- Acts 9:25One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.
- Acts 14:6–7they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,
- Josh 2:15–16Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
- 1 Sam 20:42And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.
- 1 Sam 19:12–17So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
- Acts 23:23–24Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.
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