20. For you bring certain new ideas to our ears. And so we would like to know what these things mean."
21. (Now all the Athenians, and arriving visitors, were occupying themselves with nothing other than speaking or hearing various new ideas.)
22. But Paul, standing in the middle of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are rather superstitious.
23. For as I was passing by and noticing your idols, I also found an altar, on which was written: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this is what I am preaching to you:
24. the God who made the world and all that is in it, the One who is the Lord of heaven and earth, who does not live in temples made with hands.
25. Neither is he served by the hands of men, as if in need of anything, since it is he who gives to all things life and breath and all else.
26. And he has made, out of one, every family of man: to live upon the face of the entire earth, determining the appointed seasons and the limits of their habitation,
27. so as to seek God, if perhaps they may consider him or find him, though he is not far from each one of us.