Acts 17:18-22

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.