Acts 17:18-22

¹⁸Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also argued with him. “What is he going on about?” they wondered. Others concluded, “He seems to be teaching about some foreign gods,” because he was speaking about Jesus and the resurrection.

¹⁹So they took him to the Areopagus, and asked him, “Please tell us about this new teaching that you're promoting.

²⁰We're hearing from you things that sound odd to us, so we'd like to know what they mean.”

²¹(All the Athenians, including foreigners who lived there, spent their whole time doing nothing except explaining or listening to something new.)

²²Paul stood up right in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “People of Athens, I notice you are very religious about everything.