Berea
Where the Bereans examined the Scriptures daily to verify Paul's teaching
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A city in Macedonia (modern Veria, Greece) where Paul and Silas preached after being driven out of Thessalonica. The Bereans were praised as 'more noble' because they didn't just take Paul's word for it — they searched the Scriptures daily to see if what he said was true (Acts 17:10-14).
Chapters Mentioning Berea
Acts
The God You Already Sense Is There
Paul moves through three cities with three very different receptions — riots in Thessalonica, eager Bible-checkers in Berea, and elite philosophers in Athens. Then he delivers a speech that starts where his audience already is — quoting their own poets — and ends with the resurrection.
Acts
The Longest Sermon and the Last Goodbye
Paul travels through Greece and Turkey saying goodbye to churches he built from scratch. Along the way, a teenager falls out a window during a late-night sermon (and lives), and Paul delivers a farewell speech that breaks the room open — knowing he'll never see these people again.
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