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|text= 16While¹⁶ While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he grew exasperated at the sight of the city full of idols. 17So¹⁷ So he debated in the synagogue with the Jews and with the worshipers, and daily in the public square with whoever happened to be there. 18Even¹⁸ Even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers engaged him in discussion. Some asked, “What is this scavenger trying to say?” Others said, “He sounds like a promoter of foreign deities,” because he was preaching about ‘Jesus’ and ‘Resurrection.’ 19They¹⁹ They took him and led him to the Areopagus and said, “May we learn what this new teaching is that you speak of? 20For²⁰ For you bring some strange notions to our ears; we should like to know what these things mean.” 21Now²¹ Now all the Athenians as well as the foreigners residing there used their time for nothing else but telling or hearing something new.22Then ²²Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said:“You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious. 23For²³ For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, '''I even discovered an altar inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God.’ What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.''' 24The²⁴ The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands, 25nor²⁵ nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything. 26He²⁶ He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions, 27so²⁷ so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us. '''28For²⁸ For ‘In him we live and move and have our being,’ as even some of your poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’''' 29Since²⁹Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination. 30God³⁰ God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent 31because³¹ because he has established a day on which he will ‘judge the world with justice’ through a man he has appointed, and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him from the dead.”32When” ³² When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, “We should like to hear you on this some other time.” 33And³³ And so Paul left them. 34But³⁴ But some did join him, and became believers. Among them were Dionysius, a member of the Court of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.