ACTS 17:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
Now the Bereans were of more noble character (eugenes) than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true — Eugenes here denotes intellectual generosity and methodological rigor, not class status. The Bereans embody the Reformation principle: sola scriptura. Luke's portrait celebrates active, daily scriptural scrutiny as the mark of genuine faith.
Church Fathers on Acts 17:11
And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. Acts 17:4 The writer mentions only the sum and substance of the discoursing: he is not given to redundancy, and does not on every occasion report the sermons. But the Jews which believed not (the best texts omit which believed not), moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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