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Acts 17:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cæsar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
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Role in This Section
Charges Jason with hosting people who proclaim another king against Caesar.
Read It With
- Acts 17:1–17:9
Acts 17:7 charges Jason with hosting people who proclaim another king against Caesar; within Acts 17:1–17:9, the controlling movement is that Paul reasons from Scripture that the Messiah must suffer and rise, some Jews and many Greeks and leading women join, opponents recruit a crowd, and Jason is charged with hosting people accused of opposing Caesar.
Why It Needs Context
Charges Jason with hosting people who proclaim another king against Caesar. Its responsible force depends on the full sequence, speaker, narrator framing, and outcome of Acts 17:1–17:9; it is connective evidence rather than a complete standalone teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read Acts 17:1–17:9 — Thessalonian synagogue reasoning triggers civic accusationSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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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 17:1–17:9, 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 17:1-17:9
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