18. Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What’s this babbler trying to say?” while others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was proclaiming the Good News of Yeshua and the resurrection.
19. So they took Paul to the Aereopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are talking about?
20. For you are bringing some strange things to our ears, so we want to know what these things mean.”
21. Now all the Athenians and foreigners visiting there used to pass their time doing nothing but telling or hearing something new.
22. So Paul stood in the middle of the Aereopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in all ways you are very religious.
23. For while I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an Unknown God.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing, this I proclaim to you.
24. The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by hands.
25. Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, since He Himself gives to everyone life and breath and all things.
26. From one He made every nation of men to live on the face of the earth, having set appointed times and the boundaries of their territory.