20. For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean.”
21. (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)
22. So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.
23. For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.
24. The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,
25. nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.