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Acts 17:21

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(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.)

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  1. Acts 17:19

    And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

  2. Acts 17:20

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

  3. Acts 17:22

    Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

  4. Acts 17:23

    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.

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