Lexham English Bible

Acts 17:19-23 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

19. And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we learn what is this new teaching being proclaimed by you?

20. For you are bringing some astonishing things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.”

21. (Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who stayed there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling something or listening to something new.)

22. So Paul stood there in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see you are very religious in every respect.

23. For as I was passing through and observing carefully your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, ‘To an unknown God.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you—