Acts 17:19
“"And having taken him, they brought him," etc. The Athenians no longer enjoyed their own laws, but were become subject to the Romans. Then why did they hale him to the Areopagus? Meaning to overawe him - the place where they held the trials for bloodshed.”
19And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
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17Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
18Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
— Acts 17:19 —
20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
21(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)