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So they took him and brought him to the Areopagus and asked him, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
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It sounds rather strange to us, so we would like to know what it means."
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Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something new.
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Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, "Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way.
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For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, "To an unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
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