NASB
"Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols."
— Acts 17:16, NASB
“Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.”
“Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols. ”
“Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.”
“Paul at Athens While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was greatly upset because he saw the city was full of idols.”
“Now whilst Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, seeing the city wholly given to idolatry.”
“Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was troubled, for he saw all the town full of images of the gods.”
“Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.”
But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds.
Then immediately the brethren sent Paul out to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there.
Now those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.
Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols.
So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present.
And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"--because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming?