But others jeered at the speakers, saying, “They are drunk on new wine!”

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)

until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.

But the word of God kept on increasing and multiplying.

“Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life.”

These two went down and prayed for them so that they would receive the Holy Spirit.

Now three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing.”

The brothers from there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. When he saw them, Paul thanked God and took courage.