Acts 17:17-26

¹⁷Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout Greeks, and in the market daily with those that met him.

¹⁸And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, What doth this babbler mean to say? and others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of foreign gods; because he brought the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection.

¹⁹And they took him and brought him to Mars' hill, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is, of which thou speakest?

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

²¹Now all the Athenians, and the strangers residing among them, spent their leisure for nothing else but to tell or to hear something new.

²²Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are very devout.

²³For while passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, “To an unknown God.” What therefore ye, without knowledge of it, worship, that do I make known to you.

²⁴The God who made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

²⁵nor doth he receive service at the hands of men, as though he needed anything, since it is he that giveth to all life and breath and all things.

²⁶And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having fixed appointed times, and the bounds of their habitation;