Apostle Paul in Athens

¹⁵And those who conducted Paul brought him unto Athens and, having received direction for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.
   
 ¹⁶Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
   
 ¹⁷Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the marketplace daily with those who met with him.
   
 ¹⁸Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him. And some said, "What will this babbler say?" And some others said, "He seemeth to be a proclaimer of strange gods," because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection.
   
 ¹⁹And they took him and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new doctrine is whereof thou speakest?
   
 ²⁰For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears, and we would know therefore what these things mean."
   
 ²¹(For all the Athenians and strangers who were there spent their time in nothing else than either telling or hearing some new thing.)
   
 ²²Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' Hill and said, "Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
   
 ²³For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription: `To the Unknown God'. Whom therefore ye worship in ignorance, Him I declare unto you.
   
 <sup>24</sup>God who made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
   
 <sup>25</sup>Neither is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things.
   
 <sup>26</sup>And He hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation,
   
 <sup>27</sup>that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after Him and find Him, though He be not far from every one of us.
   
 <sup>28</sup>For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as also certain of your own poets have said, `For we are also His offspring.'
   
 ²⁹"For inasmuch, then, as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone, graven by art and of man's devising.
   
 ³⁰The times of this ignorance God overlooked, but now He commandeth all men everywhere to repent,
   
 ³¹because He hath appointed a Day in which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained. Of this He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead."
   
 ³²But when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked and others said, "We will hear thee again on this matter."
   
 ³³So Paul departed from among them.
   
 ³⁴However, certain men cleaved unto him and believed, among whom were Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Acts 17: 15-34 KJ21