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Acts 17:19-23 English Standard Version (ESV)

19. And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

20. For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.”

21. Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.

22. So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.

23. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.