They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in foreign languages according as the Spirit gave them words to utter.

until there arose a foreign king over Egypt who knew nothing of Joseph.

A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some of them asked, "What has this beggarly babbler to say?" "His business," said others, "seems to be to cry up some foreign gods." This was because he had been telling the Good News of Jesus and the Resurrection.

(For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)

In all the synagogues also I punished them many a time, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my wild fury I chased them even to foreign towns.