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Acts 17 — Sermon Preparation
Paul preaches in Thessalonica and Berea, then delivers his famous Areopagus address in Athens on the unknown God. Below is a research summary for Acts 17, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Greek words / lemmas
- 27
- classic sermon excerpts
- 7
- preachers & commentators
Acts 17 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Παῦλος | Paûlos | G3972 | 9 | Paul, Paulus |
| Ἄρειος Πάγος | Áreios Págos | G697 | 4 | Areopagus, Mars' Hill |
| Ἰάσων | Iásōn | G2394 | 4 | Jason |
| Σιλᾶς | Sílas | G4609 | 4 | Silas |
| Ἰουδαῖος | Ioudaîos | G2453 | 5 | Jew, of Judæa |
| ἀνήρ | anḗr | G435 | 5 | fellow, husband, man, sir |
| Θεσσαλονίκη | Thessaloníkē | G2332 | 3 | Thessalonica |
How preachers through history handled this text
27 public-domain excerpts on Acts 17, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Here we have a sermon to heathens, who worshipped false gods, and were without the true God in the world; and to them the scope of the discourse was different from what the apostle preached to the Jews. In the latter case, his business was to lead his hearers by prophecies and miracles to the knowledge of the Redeemer, and faith in him; in the former, it was to lead them, by the common works of providence, to know the Creator, and worship Him. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Acts 17:22–31 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Amphipolis— Acts 17:1
- Apollonia— Acts 17:1
- Thessalonica— Acts 17:1
- Berea— Acts 17:10
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