Acts 17:1-4:
17:1But having traveled-through Amphipolis and Apollonia they went into Thessalonica where there was a synagogue of the Judeans; .2and according to the-thing having been accustomed2 with Paul he went-into (the synagogue) towards them, and on three sabbaths he throughly-spoke with them from the writings, .3throughly-opening and putting-beside that, "It was necessary (for) the Christ to suffer and to be resurrected out-from dead-people," and that, "This Jesus is the Christ whom I message to you." .4And some-people out-from them were persuaded and were thrown-in-the-lot with Paul and Silas, and a big multitude of the Greeks reverencing and not a little of the first women.
After Paul and Silas departed from Philippi, they traveled westward through the cities of Amphipolis and Apollonia and they went into Thessalonica, which was an important Macedonian city with a large harbor on the coast. In Thessalonica there was a Judean synagogue, and as Paul customarily did when entering cities (it was a habit of his; refer to Acts 13:5 and 14, 14:1, 18:4 and 19, 19:8), he went towards the Judeans in the synagogue for three sabbaths and he spoke back-and-forth with them from the writings.
Paul throughly spoke (conversed, discussed, had dialogue) with them taking the source of what he was saying from the scrolls (the scriptures which he had available to him to use) by completely or fully opening up the scriptures which had been closed to their mind's understanding before this. He placed what he was teaching beside them so that they could take it as a deposit in their-own keeping.
He was teaching them quoting passages from the scriptures that it was necessary (binding, needful, an obligation) for the Christ to suffer (for the Messiah, the Anointed-one to be affected by and experience many things, which included his crucifixion, death and burial) and it was necessary for the Christ to be resurrected (caused to stand-up by God) from among the rest of the people who are still dead! He also told them that the Jesus whom he is talking about is the Christ whom emphatically he was messaging to them.
Some of the Thessalonian people of the Judean background who were in the synagogue during these three sabbaths became persuaded (willingly convinced) regarding what Paul was teaching them directly from the scriptures. And they teamed-up with Paul and Silas becoming holy-people and inheritors also of all God has promised. Some of the new holy-people were from a big multitude of the Greeks (Hellenists) who were reverentially respectful towards God, plus a large number of the leading ladies (the prominent women) in Thessalonica, who had also attended the synagogue meetings to learn about the only true God.
[Reference: Genesis 3:15; Psalm 2:7, 110; Isaiah chapter 53; Luke 24:32 and 45; Acts 13:33, 15:40, 16:14, 18:28; Romans 15:4, 16:25 and 26; I Corinthians 15:3 and 4; Philippians 4:16; I Thessalonians chapters 1 and 2, and 4:13-17; II Thessalonians 3:7-10; II Timothy 3:16. Note: verbs with a superscript 2 (2) immediately following them indicate the "perfect" tense - details are provided in the "Relevant Notes" link of this study.]
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