18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some said, “What is this ignorant show-off[a] trying to say?”

Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.(A)

19 They took him and brought him to the Areopagus,[b] and said, “May we learn about this new teaching you are presenting?(B) 20 Because what you say sounds strange to us, and we want to know what these things mean.”

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Footnotes

  1. 17:18 Lit this seed picker
  2. 17:19 Or Mars Hill

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