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text of Acts |
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17:16-21
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While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed
to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the
synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in
the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be
there.
A group of Epicurean and Stoic
philosophers began to dispute with him. Some of them asked,
"What is this babbler trying to say?" Others remarked, 'He
seems to be advocating foreign gods.' They said this because Paul
was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
Then they took him and brought him to a meeting
of the Areopagus, where they said to him, 'May we know what this new
teaching is that you are presenting? You are bringing some strange
ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.'
(All
the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time
doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)
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