Acts 17:16-21

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.

17 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.

18 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.

19 And they took him and brought him to ⁷the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this ⁸new teaching is that you are presenting?

20 For you bring some ⁹strange 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.

Cross References

• 1. [2 Peter 2:8]
• 2. [Isaiah 2:8]
• 3. See Acts 13:5
• 4. [1 Corinthians 4:10]
• 5. See Acts 5:42
• 6. ver. 31, 32; Acts 4:2; [1 Corinthians 15:12]
• 7. ver. 22; [ver. 34]
• 8. Mark 1:27; [John 7:16; Hebrews 13:9]
• 9. 1 Peter 4:4, 12; [Hosea 8:12]