Acts 17:16-21 - Paul In Athens
16 But while Paul waited for them in Athens, his spirit was aroused within him, seeing the city being completely idolatrous. 17 Indeed therefore he was discoursing in the synagogue with the Jews, and with those who worship, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened by. 18 And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, Whatever does this babbler want to say? But others, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities, because he brought the good-news--Jesus and t
19 And having taken him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, Can we understand what this new doctrine is, being spoken by thee? 20 For thou bring some surprising things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know whatever these things aim to be. 21 Now all the Athenians, and the foreigners who dwell alien there, were at leisure in nothing else, than to tell or to hear something new.