³ He was reading it in the wide place in front of the water-doorway, from early morning till the middle of the day, in the hearing of all those men and women whose minds were able to take it in; and the ears of all the people were open to the book of the law.

²² He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

²⁹ He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

¹ For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.

² Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;

³ What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

¹³ And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

²³ And when a day had been fixed, they came to his house in great numbers; and he gave them teaching, giving witness to the kingdom of God, and having discussions with them about Jesus, from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

¹¹ Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.

¹⁴ And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.

²¹ For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.

²⁷ For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.

¹⁵ And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the Synagogue sent to them, saying, Brothers, if you have a word of comfort for the people, say on.

⁴⁸ But they were not able to do anything, because the people all kept near him, being greatly interested in his words.

¹⁸ So take care how you give hearing, for to him who has will be given, and from him who has not will be taken even what he seems to have.

¹⁶ And he came to Nazareth, where he had been as a child, and he went, as his way was, into the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and got up to give a reading.

¹⁷ And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said,

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

¹⁹ To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure is come.

²⁰ And shutting the book he gave it back to the servant and took his seat: and the eyes of all in the Synagogue were fixed on him.

³⁷ David himself gives him the name of Lord; and how then is he his son? And the common people gave ear to him gladly.

²⁸ And it came about, when Jesus had come to the end of these words, that the people were surprised at his teaching,

²⁹ for he was teaching as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

¹¹ And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away.

⁷ And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.