And when he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around and brought many serious complaints against Paul, which they were not able to prove.

But if it is a question of words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; for I do not want to be a judge of such matters.

And he came to Ephesus, and left them there; but he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

I found out that he was accused concerning questions of their law, but had nothing charged against him deserving of death or bonds.

Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you fear the gods;

for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your devotion, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One to whom you show reverence without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:

beginning from the immersion of John until the day when He was taken up from us, it is necessary for one of these to become a witness with us of His resurrection.

This Jesus, God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.

because He has established a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has appointed. He has given assurance of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.

Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come to be;

that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

and that He was buried, and that He was raised the third day according to the Scriptures,

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain and your faith is also vain.

For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.

Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.