15But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him with all speed, they departed.
16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
17So he reasoned in the synagogue with Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign demons," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
19They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?
20For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."
21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
