5 Bible Verses about Mythology

and they called Barnabas, Jupiter, and Paul, Mercury, because he was a master of eloquence. And the priest of the Jupiter which was before the city brought bulls and garlands to the gates, and wished to offer sacrifices with the multitudes.

and they called Barnabas, Jupiter, and Paul, Mercury, because he was a master of eloquence.

And while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was moved within him as he saw the city wholly devoted to idolatry. Then he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and those that were pious, and in the market every day with those he met. And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers disputed with him, and some said, What does this trifler mean to say? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange demons; because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.read more.
And laying hold of him they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is which is taught by you? for you bring certain strange things to our ears; we wish therefore to know what these things mean. And all the Athenians and the strangers living there spend their leisure in nothing else but telling or hearing something new. And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus said, Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are extremely devoted to the worship of demons. For as I passed through, and observed your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore you worship as unknown, this I declare to you.

For a certain Demetrius by name, a silversmith, who made silver temples of Diana, and afforded his artisans no small gain, assembling them together and laborers of like employments, said, Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this employment, and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but in almost all Asia, this Paul has led away a great multitude by persuasion, saying that things which are made by hands are not gods.

And after three months we sailed away in an Alexandrian vessel, that had wintered in the island, with the sign of Castor and Pollux.