Acts 17:19-24

¹⁹They took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know this new teaching which you were speaking?

²⁰For you bring some strange things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know what these things mean.”

²¹(Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing but either telling or listening about something new.)

²²So Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every way.

²³For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found an altar with this inscription, “To an Unknown God.” What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

²⁴The God who made the world and everything in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples built with hands.