Acts 17:16-21
Paul in Athens
16Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was aprovoked within him as he saw that the city was bfull of idols. 17So che reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. 18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, d“What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because ehe was preaching fJesus and the resurrection. 19And they took him and brought him to gthe Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this hnew teaching is that you are presenting? 20For you bring some istrange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.” 21Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
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