^18 [a]Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this ^[b]babbler want to say?”

Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them ^(A)Jesus and the resurrection.

⁴ In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.