¹⁸ And even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were saying, “What does this babbler want to say?” But others said,^[a] “He appears to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,” because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹ And they took hold of him and^[b] brought him^[c] 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.”^[d]