ACTS Chapter 17 -- 2ND TOUR: ATHENS PAUL AND ATHENIAN IDOLATRY -- Acts 17:15-18 Those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving instructions for Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as soon as possible, they departed. -- 17:15 Now while Paul was awaiting them at Athens, his spirit was grieved and roused to anger as he saw that the city was full of idols. -- 17:16 So he reasoned and argued in the synagogue with the Jews and those who worshiped there, and in the marketplace [where assemblies are held] day after day with any who chanced to be there. -- 17:17 And some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him and began to engage in discussion. And some said, What is this babbler with his scrap-heap learning trying to say? Others said, He seems to be an announcer of foreign deities; because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. -- 17:18 PAULS SERMON TO AREOPAGUS -- Acts 17:19-34 And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus [Mars Hill meeting place], saying, May we know what this novel (unheard of and unprecedented) teaching is which you are openly declaring? -- 17:19 For you set forth some startling things, foreign and strange to our ears; we wish to know therefore just what these things mean. -- 17:20 For the Athenians, all of them, and the foreign residents and visitors among them spent all their leisure time in nothing except telling or hearing something newer than the last. -- 17:21 (This court met on the 377-foot hill, Mars Hill, god of war, a little NE of the Acropolis. In Pauls day this body functioned in matters pertaining to religion, culture and education. They evaluated the competence of visiting lecturers to speak, and so heard Paul as a promoter of a new religion. -- New Ungers Bible Handbook).
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