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Acts 17:9-28

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9Then they took a security bond from Jason and the rest and let them go.
10Immediately, during the night, the brothers sent both Paul and Silas away to Berea; on arriving they went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all goodwill, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things might be so.
12Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.
13But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the Word of God was also being proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they came too, agitating the crowds.
14So then, without delay, the brothers sent Paul away, as if to go by sea, while both Silas and Timothy remained there.
15But those who were conducting Paul actually took him all the way to Athens; and receiving a command to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they started back.
16Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was increasingly aroused within him as he observed that the city was full of idols.
17So he reasoned both in the synagogue with the Jews and devout persons, and in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.
18Then certain philosophers, both Epicureans and Stoics, encountered him. Some said, “What might this idea-scavenger want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
19So taking him in tow they led him to the Areopagus and said: “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
20Because you are bringing some strange things to our ears, and we would like to know what they might mean.”
21(Now all Athenians and resident foreigners spent their time in nothing else but to tell, or else to hear, some novelty.)
22So standing in the middle of the Areopagus Paul said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious;
23because as I went along and scrutinized the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO UNKNOWN GOD. Now then, the one you worship as ‘unknown’, this is the One I proclaim to you:
24The God who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples built by hands,
25neither is He cared for by men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself has always given life and breath to all.
26And from one blood He made every ethnic nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
27so that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
28because in Him we live and move and have our being. As also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

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