Acts 17:16-18
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 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. 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.
Paul was irritated and moved to respond to all the people following false gods in Athens. So he spoke to both Jew and Greek in the synagogue and every day in the market to anyone there. He talked of Jesus Christ and the resurrection, pointing them to the one and only God revealed and proven in Christ and His rising from death. The philosophers called him a babbler because they could not reason out nor understand God's word and work they were listening to. So today many stare or slander without stopping to listen carefully.
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