Acts 17:14-21

14 Then the brothers ¹immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and ²Timothy remained there.

15 ³Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as ⁴Athens, and after receiving a command ⁵for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.

Paul in Athens

16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was ⁶provoked within him as he saw that the city was ⁷full of idols.

17 So ⁸he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.

18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, ⁹"What does this babbler wish to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities"--because ¹⁰he was preaching ¹¹Jesus and the resurrection.

19 And they took him and brought him to ¹²the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this ¹³new teaching is that you are presenting?

20 For you bring some ¹⁴strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean."

21 Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.