Acts 17:19-22

19So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus,1 where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”

21Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

22Then Paul stood up in the meeting2 of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.