1After going through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.2According to his custom, Paul went in to them and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the writings.3Opening up and setting before them that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, and that this Jesus is the Christ whom I proclaim to you.4Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, together with a large multitude of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.5The Jews became jealous, took along some evil men from the marketplace, formed a mob, and set the city in an uproar. They came to the house of Jason and sought to bring them out before the people.6When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city authorities, shouting that these men who have turned the world upside down have now come here also.7Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar by saying that there is another king, Jesus.8They stirred up the crowd and the city authorities who heard these things.9After taking security from Jason and the rest, they released them.