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Acts 17:22

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Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.

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A drought on her waters! They will dry up. For it is a land of idols, idols that will go mad with terror.

Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then left with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.

Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.

The city clerk quieted the crowd and said: “Fellow Ephesians, doesn’t all the world know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?

Instead, they had some points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive.




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