Acts 17:17-19

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁷ So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with those who worshiped God and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.^{(A) 18} Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual^[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](B)

¹⁹ They took him and brought him to the Areopagus,^[c] and said, “May we learn about this new teaching you’re speaking of?^(C)