Acts 17:4
And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
In Thessalonica the labor was going into the synagogue and for three Sabbath days reasoning with them out of the Scriptures. The reasoning was opening and alleging that Christ must needs suffer and rise again from the dead, and that Jesus whom he preached is Christ. The verse records the fruit of that manner of labor, that the powerful proclamation led some of the Jews to believe and to consort and join with Paul and Silas. With them there believed also a great multitude of devout Greeks or Gentiles and many of the chief, prominent, leading women of the city, not a few.
Such an outcome shows he was no novice, but able to meet every class of people from persons of renown to heathen idolaters. He set before them evidences for Christianity that were not of human invention. His religion came from God, bearing light from heaven that no power on earth could quench, and stamped by divinity as of heavenly, divine origin. The success in winning many people to the teaching and in gathering large congregations and converts stirred the unbelieving Jews to envy and jealousy. Those who thus believed accepted the gospel on its messengers' first visit to Thessalonica and remained faithful to God through trial and hardship.