Acts 17:13-24

¹³But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was announced in Berea also by Paul, they came there also, stirring up the crowds.

¹⁴And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as to the sea; but Silas and Timotheus abode there.

¹⁵But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and, having received a commandment to Silas and Timotheus, that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.

¹⁶But in Athens, while Paul was waiting for them, his spirit was painfully excited in him seeing the city given up to idolatry.

¹⁷He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews, and those who worshipped, and in the market-place every day with those he met with.

¹⁸But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection to them.

¹⁹And having taken hold on him they brought him to Areopagus, saying, Might we know what this new doctrine which is spoken by thee is?

²⁰For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.

²¹Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the news.

²²And Paul standing in the midst of Areopagus said, Athenians, in every way I see you given up to demon worship;

²³for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing him, him I announce to you.

²⁴The God who has made the world and all things which are in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,