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Paul and Silas and their group traveled to Thessalonica. They spent three weeks reasoning with the Jews, explaining how Messiah needed to come and suffer and then rise from the dead. They said, “Jesus is this Promised One.”

Some of the Jews accepted Christ, as well as a large number of Greeks. This upset the other Jews. They became so angry they decided to destroy the movement. They went into the market place and gathered together a group of thugs. Together they organized a mob against the Christians.