16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred up within him, seeing the city given over to idolatry.
17. And so, he was disputing with the Jews in the synagogue, and with the worshipers, and in public places, throughout each day, with whomever was there.
18. Now certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were arguing with him. And some were saying, "What does this sower of the Word want to say?" Yet others were saying, "He seems to be an announcer for new demons." For he was announcing to them Jesus and the Resurrection.
19. And apprehending him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying: "Are we able to know what this new doctrine is, about which you speak?
20. For you bring certain new ideas to our ears. And so we would like to know what these things mean."
21. (Now all the Athenians, and arriving visitors, were occupying themselves with nothing other than speaking or hearing various new ideas.)
22. But Paul, standing in the middle of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are rather superstitious.
23. For as I was passing by and noticing your idols, I also found an altar, on which was written: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this is what I am preaching to you:
24. the God who made the world and all that is in it, the One who is the Lord of heaven and earth, who does not live in temples made with hands.
25. Neither is he served by the hands of men, as if in need of anything, since it is he who gives to all things life and breath and all else.
26. And he has made, out of one, every family of man: to live upon the face of the entire earth, determining the appointed seasons and the limits of their habitation,
27. so as to seek God, if perhaps they may consider him or find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
28. 'For in him we live, and move, and exist.' Just as some of your own poets have said. 'For we are also of his family.'