Catholic Public Domain Version
"(Now all the Athenians, and arriving visitors, were occupying themselves with nothing other than speaking or hearing various new ideas.) "
— Acts 17:21, Catholic Public Domain Version
“(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.)”
“(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) ”
“Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.”
“(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)”
“(Now all the Athenians and strangers that were there employed themselves in nothing else, but either in telling or in hearing some new thing.)”
“(Now all the Athenians and the men from other lands who come there were giving all their time to talking or hearing of anything new.)”
“(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.)”
Now certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were arguing with him. And some were saying, “What does this sower of the Word want to say?” Yet others were saying, “He seems to be an announcer for new demons.” For he was announcing to them Jesus and the Resurrection.
And apprehending him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying: “Are we able to know what this new doctrine is, about which you speak?
For you bring certain new ideas to our ears. And so we would like to know what these things mean.”
(Now all the Athenians, and arriving visitors, were occupying themselves with nothing other than speaking or hearing various new ideas.)
But Paul, standing in the middle of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are rather superstitious.
For as I was passing by and noticing your idols, I also found an altar, on which was written: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this is what I am preaching to you:
the God who made the world and all that is in it, the One who is the Lord of heaven and earth, who does not live in temples made with hands.