and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether it
was as Paul stated.
017:012 As the result many of them became believers, and so did not
a few of the Greeks--gentlewomen of good position, and men.
017:013 As soon, however, as the Jews of Thessalonica learnt
that God's Message had been proclaimed by Paul at Beroea,
they came there also, and incited the mob to a riot.
017:014 Then the brethren promptly sent Paul down to the sea-coast,
but Silas and Timothy remained behind.
017:015 Those who were caring for Paul's safety went with him as far
as Athens, and then left him, taking a message from him to Silas
and Timothy, asking them to join him as speedily as possible.
017:016 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred
within him when he noticed that the city was full of idols.
017:017 So he had discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and
the other worshippers, and in the market place, day after day,
with those whom he happened to meet.
017:018 A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him.
Some of them asked, "What has this beggarly babbler to say?"
"His business," said others, "seems to be to cry up
some foreign gods." This was because he had been telling
the Good News of Jesus and the Resurrection.
017:019 Then they took him and brought him up to the Areopagus, asking him,
"May we be told what this new teaching of yours is?
017:020 For the things you are saying sound strange to us.
We should therefore like to be told exactly what they mean."
017:021 (For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote
their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)
017:022 So Paul, taking his stand in the centre of the Areopagus,
spoke as follows: "Men of Athens, I perceive that you are