Verse 21
Luke inserted this sentence to help his readers who might not be familiar with Athenian culture know how unusually attracted the Athenians were to new ideas. One Athenian wrote the following.
"We Athenians stay at home doing nothing, always delaying and making decrees, and asking in the market if there be anything new." [Note: Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.), quoted by Clarence E. N. Macartney, Paul the Man, p. 107.]
They were guiltier of "seed picking" than Paul was, but their interest gave Paul an opportunity to preach the gospel.
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