Acts 17:18-22

¹⁸Among others, some Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers joined issue with him. Some asked “What is this prater wanting to make out?”, while others said “He seems to be a preacher of foreign Deities.” (This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection).

¹⁹So they laid hold of him and took him to the Court of Areopagus. “May we hear,” they asked, “what new teaching this is which you are giving?

²⁰For you are bringing some strange things to our notice, and we should like to know what they mean.”

²¹(All Athenians and the foreigners staying in the city found no time for anything else but telling, or listening to, the last new thing.)

²²So Paul took his stand in the middle of the Court, and said — “People of Athens, on every hand I see signs of your being very devout.