After making Peter and John stand in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.

“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know –

Since many of them had no desire to eat, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not put out to sea from Crete, thus avoiding this damage and loss.