But some men joined him and believed, among them Dionusios the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
“Thus the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”
And when the gentiles heard this, they were glad and praised the Word of יהוה. And as many as had been appointed to everlasting life believed.
So they laid hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “Are we able to know what this fresh teaching is of which you speak?
And having stood in the midst of the Areopagus Sha’ul said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every matter.
And so Sha’ul went out from among them.
And some of them did believe, and a large number of the worshipping Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Sha’ul and Sila.
All the set-apart ones greet you, but most of all those of Caesar’s household.