Deeds (Act) of Apostles 17:11-28

¹¹But these were the worthier or the nobler of them that be at Thessalonica, which received the word with all desire, each day seeking the scrip-tures, if these things had them so.

¹²And many of them believed, and of heathen women honest or honest heathen women and men not a few.

¹³But when the Jews in Thessalonica had known, that also at Berea the word of God was preached of Paul, they came thither, moving and disturbing or distroubling the multitude.

¹⁴And then anon brethren delivered or dismissed Paul, that he should go to the sea; but Silas and Timothy dwelt there.

¹⁵And they that led forth Paul, led him to Athens. And when they had taken a commandment of him to Silas and Timothy, that full hieingly they should come to him, they went forth.

¹⁶And while Paul abode them at Athens, his spirit was moved in him, for he saw the city given to idolatry.

¹⁷Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews, and with men that worshipped God, and in the doom place or the chapping, by all days to them that heard.

¹⁸And some Epicureans, and Stoics, and philosophers disputed with him. And some said, What will this sower of words say? And others said, He seemeth to be a teller of new fiends; for he told to them Jesus, and the again-rising.

¹⁹And they took, and led him to Areopagus, that is, a common school, and said, May we know, what is this new doctrine, that is said of thee?

²⁰For thou bringest in some new things to our ears; therefore we will know, what these things will be.

²¹For all men of Athens and come-lings harboured, gave attention to none other thing, but either to say, either to hear, some new thing.

²²And Paul stood in the middle of Areopagus, and said, Men of Athens, by all things I see you as vain worshippers.

²³For I passed, and saw your maumets or simulacra, and found an altar, in which was written, To the unknown God. Therefore which thing ye unknowing worship, this thing I show to you.

²⁴God that made the world and all things that be in it, this, for he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with or by hand,

²⁵neither is worshipped by man’s hands, neither hath need of anything, for he giveth life to all men, and breathing, and all things;

²⁶and made of one all the kind of men to inhabit on all the face of the earth, determining times ordained, and terms of the dwelling or the habitation of them,

²⁷to seek God, if peradventure they feel him, either find, though he be not far from each of you.

²⁸For in him we live, and move, and be. As also some of your poets said, And we be also the kind or the kin of him.