Acts 17:18-21 And also some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, "What does this seed-picker wish to say?" But others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

CAB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ And also some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, "What does this seed-picker wish to say?" But others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹ And taking hold of him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "Are we able to know what this new doctrine is you speak about? ²⁰ For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we desire to know what these things might mean." ²¹ Now all the Athenians and the strangers staying there as visitors spent their time in nothing other than to say or to hear some new thing.