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Acts 17:15-21

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15But those who were conducting Paul actually took him all the way to Athens; and receiving a command to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they started back.
16Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was increasingly aroused within him as he observed that the city was full of idols.
17So he reasoned both in the synagogue with the Jews and devout persons, and in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.
18Then certain philosophers, both Epicureans and Stoics, encountered him. Some said, “What might this idea-scavenger want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
19So taking him in tow they led him to the Areopagus and said: “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
20Because you are bringing some strange things to our ears, and we would like to know what they might mean.”
21(Now all Athenians and resident foreigners spent their time in nothing else but to tell, or else to hear, some novelty.)

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