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18 And also some of the Epicureans and Stoics, philosophers, encountered him, and some were saying, “What may this babbler desire to say?” but others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange gods,” because he was proclaiming the gospel—Jesus and the resurrection. 19 And having taken hold of him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “Are we able to know what this new teaching is that is spoken by you? 20 For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. We resolve, therefore, to know what these things wish to be.” 21 Now all the Athenians and the visiting foreigners spent their time on nothing other than to say something and to hear something new. Acts 17:18-21, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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