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And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

(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.)

For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God . Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.

But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.

Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.

For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused: and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.

For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.

For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.

And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.