However, certain men joined to him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
And they took him, and brought him to Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak, is?
And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.
Then Paul stood in the middle of Mars' hill, and said, You men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious.
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
So Paul departed from among them.