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Acts 17:16-34 — In Athens

Acts.17.16-34

¹⁶Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he observed that the city was full of idols. ¹⁷So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. ¹⁸Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also engaged him. Some said, “What is this scrap-monger trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities,” because he was proclaiming Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are speaking?” ²⁰For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. So we want to know what these things mean ." ²¹Now all the Athenians and the foreigners staying there would spend their time in nothing else than telling or hearing some newer thing . ²²Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious. ²³For as I passed through and observed your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, 'To an Unknown God.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. ²⁴The God who made the world and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made by human hands, ²⁵nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and all things . ²⁶And he made from one every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their dwelling places, ²⁷that they should seek God, if perhaps they might feel their way toward him and find him, though indeed he is not far from each one of us. ²⁸For in him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said: 'For we also are his offspring.' ²⁹Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image shaped by human art and imagination. ³⁰Therefore, although God overlooked the times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent, ³¹because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, having given proof to all by raising him from the dead." ³²Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, but others said, “We will hear you about this again.” ³³So Paul went out from among them. ³⁴But some people joined themselves to him and believed, among whom were also Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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4/11/2026

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