Acts 17:17-27

17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons , and in the market daily * * with them that met with him .

18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said , What will * this babbler say * ? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying , May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest , is?

20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean * * .

21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell , or to hear some new thing.)

22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said , Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

23 For as I passed by , and beheld your devotions *, I found an altar with this * inscription , TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship , him declare I unto you.

24 God that made the world and all things therein *, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed , and the bounds of their habitation;

27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him , though he be not far from every one of us:

Footnotes

• [a]. babbler: or, base fellow
• [b]. Mars hill: or, the court of the Areopagites
• [c]. devotions: or, gods that ye worship