ACTS

The Philosophers at Athens: Stoic

Pastor Scott Brenner Acts 17:16-21
[17:16] Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols.
[17:17] Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there.
[17:18] Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods," because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.
[17:19] And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak?
[17:20] "For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean."
[17:21] For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

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