ACTS 17:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.”
As a result, many of them believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men — The repetition of euschēmōn (prominent) women marks women's significant agency in both Jewish and Gentile receptivity. Paul's gospel finds ready female response across social strata.
Church Fathers on Acts 17:12
Therefore many of them believed; also of honorable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came there also, and stirred up the people. And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still. Acts 17:12-14 See how he at one time gives way, at another presses on, and in many things takes his measures…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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