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.