29. We are God’s children. So, you must not think that God is like something that people imagine or make. He is not like gold, silver, or rock.
30. In the past, people did not understand God, but God ignored this. But now, God tells everyone in the world to change his heart and life.
31. God has decided on a day that he will judge all the world. He will be fair. He will use a man to do this. God chose that man long ago. And God has proved this to everyone by raising that man from death!”
32. When the people heard about Jesus being raised from death, some of them laughed. They said, “We will hear more about this from you later.”
33. So Paul went away from them.
34. But some of the people believed Paul and joined him. One of those who believed was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus. Also a woman named Damaris and some others believed.