Acts 17:17-19

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁷ So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with those who worshiped God, as well as in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.^{(A) 18} Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some said, “What is this ignorant show-off^[a] trying to say?”

Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.^(B)

¹⁹ They took him and brought him to the Areopagus,^[b] and said, “May we learn about this new teaching you are presenting?^(C)