Apostol § 39

In those days, when Paul and Silas had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. Then Paul, as his custom was, went in unto them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures, explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, ‘This Jesus whom I preach unto you is the Christ.” And some of them believed; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas. But the Jews who did not believe, becoming envious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a company, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. And when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, ‘These who have turned the world upside down have come here too. Jason has harbored them, and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king—Jesus.” And they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things. So when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men. But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the people. Then immediately the brethren sent Paul away, to go to the sea; but both Silas and Timothy remained there still. And those who conducted Paul brought him unto Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.