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The brothers sent Sha'ul away at once to go down to the seacoast, while Sila and Timothy stayed behind.
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Sha'ul's escort went with him as far as Athens, then left with instructions for Sila and Timothy to come as quickly as they could.
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While Sha'ul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit within him was disturbed at the sight of the city full of idols.
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So he began holding discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and the "God-fearers," and in the market square every day with the people who happened to be there.
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Also a group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers started meeting with him. Some asked, "What is this babbler trying to say?" Others, because he proclaimed the Good News about Yeshua and the resurrection, said, "He sounds like a propagandist for foreign gods."
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They took and brought him before the High Council, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
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Some of the things we are hearing from you strike us as strange, and we would like to know what they mean."
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(All the Athenians and the foreigners living there used to spend their spare time talking or hearing about the latest intellectual fads.)
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Sha'ul stood up in the Council meeting and said, "Men of Athens: I see how very religious you are in every way!
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For as I was walking around, looking at your shrines, I even found an altar which had been inscribed, 'To An Unknown God.' So, the one whom you are already worshipping in ignorance-this is the one I proclaim to you.
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"The God who made the universe and everything in it, and who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in man-made temples;