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19 So they arrested him and brought him to the court house which is called Ar-e-opÆagus, and said to him, May we know what is this new doctrine which you preach?
20 For you proclaim strange words to our ears and we want to know what these things mean.
21 (For all the Athenians and the strangers who were there, were uninterested in anything except something new to tell or to hear.)
22 When Paul stood in the court at Ar-eopÆa- gus, he said, Men of Athens, I see that above all things you are extravagant in the worship of idols.
23 For as I walked about, and viewed the house of your idols, I found an altar with this inscription, THIS IS THE ALTAR OF THE UNKNOWN GOD, whom therefore, while you know him not but yet worship, is the very one I am preaching to you.
24 For the God, who made the world and all things therein, and who is the LORD of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is he ministered to by human hands, nor is he in need of anything, for it is he who gave life and breath to all men.
26 And he has made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and he has appointed seasons by his command, and has set limits to the age of men;
27 So that they should seek and search after God, and find him by means of his creations, because he is not far from any one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as some of your own wise men have said, For we are his kindred.
29 Now therefore, man, being of the family of God, is not bounden to worship resemblances made of gold or silver or stone shapen by the skill and knowledge of man into resemblances of the Deity.
30 For the times of ignorance God has made to pass, and at this time he has commanded all men, everywhere, to repent.
31 For he has appointed a day in which he will judge all the earth with righteousness by the man whom he has chosen; he who has turned every man towards his faith; for that, he has raised him from the dead.
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again on this matter.
33 So Paul left them.
34 Some of them, however, followed him and were converted; one of them was Di-onysÆius, one of the judges of Ar-e-opÆa-gus, and a woman named DamÆa-ris, and others with them.