Deeds (Act) of Apostles 17:18-32

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.

²⁹Therefore since we be the kind or the kin of God, we shall not deem or guess that godly thing is like gold, and silver, either stone, either to engraving of craft and thought of man.

³⁰For God despiseth the times of this unknowing, and now showeth to men, that all everywhere do penance;

³¹for that he hath ordained a day, in which he shall deem the world in equity, in a man in which he ordained, and gave faith to all men, and raised him from death.

³²And when they had heard the again-rising of dead men, some scorned, and some said, We shall hear thee again of this thing.