Acts 17:19-21
19 And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak? 20 For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.” 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.
The philosophers of Athens heard Paul telling about a foreign God, Jesus Christ, and so took him through the place of many gods to Mars Hill to let him talk to them all. They were always talking about or listening to the latest new idea or philosophy, so they were curious to hear more of this story. This was a change from being brought on charges before religious and government leaders as before, as these just wanted to hear the latest philosophical fad. But God's word always affects those who hear.
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