“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.”
Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women — Luke distinguishes three groups: convinced Jews, theosebeis (God-fearers, Gentiles attached to synagogal monotheism), and prominent women of Greek society. This mixed composition foreshadows both the church's catholicity and the social tensions that follow.
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