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And they that conductedPaulbroughthimuntoAthens:andreceiving a commandmentuntoSilasandTimotheus for tocometohim with all speed*, they departed.
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Now while Paul waited forthematAthens,hisspirit was stirredinhim, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
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Thereforedisputedhein the synagogue with the Jews,and with the devout persons, andin the marketdaily**with them that met with him.
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Thencertainphilosophers of the Epicureans,and of the Stoicks,encounteredhim.Andsomesaid, Whatwill*thisbabbler[a]say*? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strangegods:because he preached unto themJesus,and the resurrection.
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And they tookhim, and brought himuntoAreopagus,saying, May we knowwhatthisnewdoctrine,whereofthouspeakest, is?
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For thou bringestcertain strange thingstoourears: we wouldknowthereforewhat these thingsmean**.
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(For all the Atheniansandstrangerswhich were there spent their timeinnothingelse, but either to tell, or to hearsome new thing.)
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ThenPaulstoodin the midst of Mars' hill,[b] and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceivethatin all thingsye are too superstitious.
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For as I passed by, andbeheldyourdevotions*,[c] I found an altar with this*inscription, TO THE UNKNOWNGOD.Whomtherefore ye ignorantlyworship, himdeclareI unto you.
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God that made the worldand all thingstherein*, seeing that heisLord of heavenandearth,dwellethnotintemples made with hands;
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Neither is worshippedwithmen'shands, as though he needed any thing, seeing hegiveth to alllife,andbreath,and all things;