Acts 17:18-20

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¹⁸ Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were disputing with him.

“What can this word-scatterer be on about?” some were saying.

“He seems to be proclaiming foreign divinities,” declared others—since he was preaching “Jesus and Anastasis.” (“Anastasis” means “resurrection.”) ¹⁹ So they took him up to the Areopagus.

“Are we able to know,” they said, “what this new teaching really is that you are talking about? ²⁰ You are putting very strange ideas into our minds. We’d like to find out what it all means.”