20. The things you are saying are new to us. We have never heard this teaching before, and we want to know what it means.”
21. (The people of Athens and the foreigners who lived there spent all their time either telling or listening to all the latest ideas.)
22. Then Paul stood up before the meeting of the Areopagus council and said, “Men of Athens, everything I see here tells me you are very religious.
23. I was going through your city and I saw the things you worship. I found an altar that had these words written on it: ‘to an unknown god.’ You worship a god that you don’t know. This is the God I want to tell you about.
24. “He is the God who made the whole world and everything in it. He is the Lord of the land and the sky. He does not live in temples built by human hands.