16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him, as he beheld the city full of idols.
17. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with them that met with him.
18. And certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What would this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
19. And they took hold of him, and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by thee?
20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
21. (Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)
22. And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are somewhat superstitious.
23. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this set I forth unto you.
24. The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25. neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
26. and he made of one every nation of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;