18. Some of them were Epicureans and some were Stoics, and they started arguing with him.People were asking, “What is this know-all trying to say?”Some even said, “Paul must be preaching about foreign gods! That's what he means when he talks about Jesus and about people rising from death.”
19. They brought Paul before a council called the Areopagus, and said, “Tell us what your new teaching is all about.
20. We have heard you say some strange things, and we want to know what you mean.”
21. More than anything else the people of Athens and the foreigners living there loved to hear and to talk about anything new.
22. So Paul stood up in front of the council and said:People of Athens, I see that you are very religious.