Acts 17:11-22

¹¹Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all readiness, each day examining the Scriptures to see whether these things might be so.

¹²Therefore many of them believed, and not a few of the prominent Greek women and men.

¹³But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they came there also, agitating the crowds.

¹⁴Then immediately the brothers sent Paul away to go toward the sea; but both Silas and Timothy remained there.

¹⁵Now those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy, that as quickly as possible they should come to him, they departed.

¹⁶And in Athens, while Paul waited for them, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was full of idols.

¹⁷Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those coming by.

¹⁸And also some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, “What does this seed-picker wish to say?” But others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,” because he was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

¹⁹And taking hold of him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is you speak about?

²⁰For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we desire to know what these things might mean.”

²¹Now all the Athenians and the strangers staying there as visitors spent their time in nothing other than to say or to hear some new thing.

²²Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men, Athenians, according to all things I perceive you as being very religious;