Acts 17:22

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Summary

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

Mars'-hill

Acts 17:19

I perceive

Jeremiah 50:38

Bible References

Mars'-hill

And they took him and brought him to the

Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming?

I perceive

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols.

After quieting the crowd, the town clerk *said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image which fell down from heaven?

but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own

religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.

Thus says the Lord,
“Do not learn the way of the nations,
And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens
Although the nations are terrified by them;

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drought on her waters, and they will be dried up!

For it is a land of idols,
And they are mad over fearsome idols.