1 had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
2 to suffer and to rise from the dead and saying, “This is the Messiah, Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you.”
4 every day with those who happened to be there.
18Also some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some said, “What does this pretentious babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities.” (This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)
19So they took him and brought him to the Areopagus and asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
20It sounds rather strange to us, so we would like to know what it means.”
21Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something new.
22Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely spiritual you are in every way.
23For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
24 he made all peoples to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,
27 and perhaps fumble about for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us.
28Col 1.17; Heb 1.3For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,
‘For we, too, are his offspring.’
29 Isa 40.18ff “Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.
30v 23; Lk 24.47; Acts 14.16; Rom 3.25; Titus 2.11, 12; 1 Pet 1.14While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
31Mt 10.15; Lk 22.22; Acts 2.24; 10.42because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
32When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some scoffed, but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”
33At that point Paul left them.
34But some of them joined him and became believers, including Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
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