Paul's Second Missionary Journey with Map

Athens

Events in Athens During Paul's Second Missionary Journey

#7 Then when the Jews from Thessalonica heard, they came to Berea, but Paul escaped and went to Athens, the intellectual center of Greece. While he was waiting for Silas and Timothy to arrive, he noticed that the city was full of idols. He preached in the synagogue and the marketplace and some Greek philosophers came and desired to hear him at the forum (Areopagus). Paul stood in their midst and preached a magnificent message about "The Unknown God". He concluded by saying,

Acts 17:30-31 "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, "because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead."

(See Acts 17:16-34)