Paul in Athens
16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was
1provoked within him as he saw that the city was
2full of idols.
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So
3he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.
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Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said,
4“What does this babbler wish to say? ” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because
5he was preaching
6Jesus and the resurrection.
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And they took him and brought him to
7the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this
8new teaching is that you are presenting?
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For you bring some
9strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean. ”
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Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.