(All the Athenians and the foreigners living among them spent their time on nothing but telling or hearing the latest idea.)
In context
19So they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus. “May we know what this new teaching of yours is?” they said. 20“You are bringing strange things to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.” 21(All the Athenians and the foreigners living among them spent their time on nothing but telling or hearing the latest idea.) 22Paul stood up in the middle of the Areopagus and said: “Athenians, I see that in every way you are extremely religious. 23As I walked around looking at the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an unknown god.’ What you worship without knowing it, that is what I proclaim to you.
