18. Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, “What does this foolish babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.” (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)
19. So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?
20. For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean.”
21. (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)