Acts 17 (WEB): Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise again from the dead, saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ." And some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, along with a great multitude of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. But the Jews who were not persuaded, having gathered some wicked men of the marketplace, formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the people. When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the rulers of the city, shouting, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here too, whom Jason has received. These all act against the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus." And the people and the rulers were disturbed when they heard these things. After they had been released, Paul and Silas went away to Berea. These were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. Therefore many of them believed, along with not a few Greek women and men. But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul in Berea also, they came there too, stirring up the crowds. Then immediately the brothers sent Paul away, to go as far as the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there. Now those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews and devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. Now some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange gods," because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. Then they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming? For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean." Now all the Athenians and strangers who were dwelling there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear something new. Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, "Men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in every way. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made with hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and all things. And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, so that they should seek God, if perhaps they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. For in him we live, and move, and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said, 'We are also his offspring.' Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of men. The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because 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 men by raising him from the dead." And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, but others said, "We will hear you again about this." So Paul went out from among them. But some men joined him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.