Deeds (Act) of Apostles 17:19-27

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 comelings (or newcomers) harboured (there), 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 (or as futile) worshippers.

²³For I passed (by), and saw your maumets, or your simulacra, (or and I saw your idols), and found an altar, in which was written, To the unknown God. Therefore which thing ye unknowing (or not knowing) worship, (or which ye worship in ignorance), this thing I (shall) show to you.

²⁴God that made the world and all things that be in it, this (God), for he is (the) Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hand or made 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 (the) terms of the dwelling or of the habitation of them,

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