18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some said, 'What is this babbler trying to say?' Others remarked, 'He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,' because he was preaching about Jesus and the resurrection.
19 They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, 'May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
20 For you bring some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.
21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)
22 Paul then stood up in the middle of the Areopagus and said, 'Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.
23 As I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So, you are worshiping in ignorance the very one I proclaim to you.
24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands.