Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols.

And when the city clerk had quieted the crowd, he said: Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple guardian of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

but had some questions against him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Thus says Jehovah, Do not learn the way of the nations, and do not be dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.

For the customs of the people are vain; for one cuts a tree out of the forest with the ax, the work of the hands of the craftsman.

A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up. For it is the land of graven images, and they act madly and are in dread.