8. And the people and the city authorities were disturbed when they heard these things.
9. And when they had taken money as security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
10. The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.
11. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
12. Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men.
13. But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.
14. Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.
15. Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.
16. Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.
17. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.
18. Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
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.