15. And those who arranged for Sha’ul brought him to Athens. And receiving a command for Sila and Timothy to join him as soon as possible, they departed.
16. But while Sha’ul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred up within him when he saw that the city was utterly idolatrous.
17. Therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the congregation with the Yehuḏim and with the gentile worshippers, and in the market-place daily with those who met there.
18. And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some were saying, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange mighty ones” – because to them he brought the Good News: יהושע and the resurrection!
19. So they laid hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “Are we able to know what this fresh teaching is of which you speak?
20. “For you are bringing some strange matters to our ears. We wish, then, to know what these mean.”
21. For all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their leisure time in doing naught but to speak or to hear what is fresh.
22. And having stood in the midst of the Areopagus Sha’ul said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every matter.