Acts 17:17-22

¹⁷So every day he went to the Jewish meeting house and talked with the people there about Jesus. Some of those people were Jews, and some were Greeks that believed in God. And Paul went to the place in the middle of the town where there were a lot of people, and he talked about Jesus to the people that he met there.

¹⁸Some of that Athens mob always thought about the best way for people to live. Some of them were called Epicureans, and some were called Stoics. They talked to Paul, and he told them about Jesus. Paul said that Jesus died, and God made him alive again. Some of that mob said, “This man is just talking rubbish.” Other people said, “We think he is talking about gods from other countries.”

¹⁹So they took Paul to a meeting of the town council, and they asked him, “What are you telling everyone? Tell us what this new message is all about.

²⁰You are saying things that shock us, and we want to understand what you mean.”

²¹You see, the Athens people, and the people from other places that lived there, they liked to talk about new ideas all the time, and they liked to hear anything new that other people told them.

²²Then Paul stood up and talked to the council mob at Athens. He said, “I can see that you Athens mob think a lot about gods.