Acts 17:17-33

¹⁷Then he disputed in the synagoge with the Iewes and with the devout persones and in the market dayly with the that came vnto him.

¹⁸Certayne philosophers of the Epicures and of the stoyckes disputed with him. And some ther were which sayde: what will this babler saye. Other sayd: he semeth to be a tydynges bringer of newe devyls because he preached vnto them Iesus and the resurreccion.

¹⁹And they toke him and brought him into Marsestrete sayinge: maye we not knowe what this newe doctrine wher of thou speakest is?

²⁰For thou bringest straunge tydynges to oure eares. We wolde knowe therfore what these thinges meane.

²¹For all the Attenians and straungers which were there gave the selves to nothinge els but ether to tell or to heare newe tydynges.

²²Paul stode in the myddes of Marse strete and sayde: ye men of Attens I perceave that in all thinges ye are to supersticious.

²³For as I passed by and behelde the maner how ye worship youre goddes I founde an aultre wher in was written: vnto the vnknowen god. Whom ye then ignorantly worship him shewe I vnto you.

²⁴God that made the worlde and all that are in it seynge that he is Lorde of heven and erth he dwelleth not in temples made with hondes

²⁵nether is worshipped with mennes hondes as though he neded of eny thinge seinge he him selfe geveth lyfe and breeth to all men every where

²⁶and hath made of one bloud all nacions of men for to dwell on all the face of the erthe and hath assigned before how longe tyme and also the endes of their inhabitacion

²⁷that they shuld seke God yf they myght fele and fynde him though he be not farre from every one of vs.

²⁸For in him we lyve move and have oure beynge as certayne of youre awne Poetes sayde. For we are also his generacion.

²⁹For as moche then as we are the generacion of God we ought not to thynke that the godhed is lyke vnto golde silver or stone graven by crafte and ymaginacion of man.

³⁰And the tyme of this ignoraunce God regarded not: but now he byddeth all men every where repent

³¹because he hath apoynted a daye in the which he will iudge the worlde acordynge to ryghtewesses by that man whom he hath apoynted and hath offered faith to all men after that he had raysed him from deeth.

³²When they hearde of the resurreccion from deeth some mocked and other sayde: we will heare the agayne of this matter.

³³So Paul departed from amonge them.