Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Acts 17:34 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 34. 34Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
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Quick Meaning
Names Dionysius, Damaris, and others among the believers.
Read It With
- Acts 17:22–17:34
Acts 17:34 names Dionysius, Damaris, and others among the believers; within Acts 17:22–17:34, the controlling movement is that Paul begins from Athenian religiosity and an altar dedicated to an unknown deity, proclaims the Creator who gives life and is near all peoples, critiques images, announces judgment through the risen man, and receives mixed responses.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Names Dionysius, Damaris, and others among the believers. This precise contribution belongs inside “Paul proclaims the Creator and calls Athens to repent” because Paul begins from Athenian religiosity and an altar dedicated to an unknown deity, proclaims the Creator who gives life and is near all peoples, critiques images, announces judgment through the risen man, and receives mixed responses.
What Remains True
Because Acts 17:34 names Dionysius, Damaris, and others among the believers, faithful witness must preserve the verse's speaker, narrated setting, people affected, and the full movement of Acts 17:22–17:34 before drawing an enduring claim.
How It Can Shape Life
- For Acts 17:34, first identify this verse role—names Dionysius, Damaris, and others among the believers; then explain the contextual meaning in Acts 17:22–17:34; preserve the proportionate truth about accountable witness; finally apply this boundary: The speech does not baptize every culture, demean non-Christians as ignorant objects, map empire onto a modern party, or coerce belief through judgment language.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 17:22–17:34 — Paul proclaims the Creator and calls Athens to repentSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 17:22–17:34, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 17:22-17:34
Open the Acts Greek text file ↗Lexical and grammatical evidence
STEP Bible Data
Tyndale House Cambridge
Tyndale House Cambridge, repository snapshot verified 2026
Supports: Morphology and lexical cross-check for words explicitly discussed in this unit.
Exact location: STEP Bible Data, TAGNT rows for Acts 17:22-17:34
Open source ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Acts
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, translation, language, geography, chronology, and historical notes actually printed for the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Acts PDF, printed pp. 2104-2205, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to 17:22–17:34
Open source ↗