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16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with them that met him. 18 And certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What would this babbler say? others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of [a]strange [b]gods: because he [c]preached Jesus and the resurrection.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:18 Or, foreign divinities
  2. Acts 17:18 Greek demons.
  3. Acts 17:18 See marginal note on 5:42.