^{17 Ref} So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

^{18 Ref} Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also{TR omits "also"} were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

^{19 Ref} They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

^{20 Ref} For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."

^{21 Ref} Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.