3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, 'This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.'
4 Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along{TR reads 'And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along' instead of 'But the unpersuaded Jews took along'} some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
6 When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers{The word for 'brothers' here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated 'brothers and sisters' or 'siblings.'} before the rulers of the city, crying, 'These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!'
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