18And also some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, “What does this seed-picker wish to say?” But others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,” because he was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.
19And taking hold of him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is you speak about?
20For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we desire to know what these things might mean.”