21 Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas. 22 Then Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
Acts 17:21–23
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