Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Acts 17:21 in context
Acts 17:18–24
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Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?”
Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
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They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
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For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
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Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
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Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
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For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
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The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
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