9. And when they had received a pledge from Jason and the others, they released them.
10. The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11. Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
12. Therefore many of them believed, along with a number of prominent Greek women and men.
13. But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds.
14. Then immediately the brethren sent Paul out to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there.
15. Now those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.
16. Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols.
17. So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present.
18. And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"-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 which you are proclaiming?
20. For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."