Paul in Athens: Confronting Idolatry

Acts 17:16-21

While Sha’ul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit within him was disturbed at the sight of the city full of idols.

So he began holding discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and the “God-fearers,” and in the market square every day with the people who happened to be there.

Also a group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers started meeting with him. Some asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others, because he proclaimed the Good News about Yeshua and the resurrection, said, “He sounds like a propagandist for foreign gods.”

They took and brought him before the High Council, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

Some of the things we are hearing from you strike us as strange, and we would like to know what they mean.”

(All the Athenians and the foreigners living there used to spend their spare time talking or hearing about the latest intellectual fads.)

Paul in Athens: Confronting Idolatry

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