Acts 17:22-34 (Episode 427)
30 Minutes In The New Testament
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Paul uses an altar to the unknown god to address the men of Athens. A disembodied spirituality is nothing new. And how is a God who loves and gives completely different? Have a listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of 30 Minutes in the New Testament. |
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| 2:03.5 | If it's new, they're interested. |
| 2:05.3 | Have you not heard it before, tell me more. |
| 2:07.6 | And so Paul is, in fact, going to tell them more. |
| 2:10.9 | And that's kind of where we ended. |
| 2:13.5 | What is this new thing that Paul is going to tell them? |
| 2:17.9 | That's right, Dan. |
| 2:19.0 | So we pick it up in verse 22. |
| 2:20.4 | It says, so Paul, standing in the midst of the Ariopagus, aka Mars Hill, said, men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. |
| 2:32.4 | Whereas I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, |
| 2:35.2 | I found also an altar with this inscription, quote, to the unknown God, unquote. |
| 2:41.5 | What therefore you worship is unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and |
| 2:46.9 | everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, |
| 2:51.7 | nor has he served by human hands, as though he needed anything since he himself gives to all |
| 2:56.3 | mankind, life and breath, and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind |
| 3:01.8 | to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries |
| 3:06.6 | of their dwelling place, |
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