And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, 'Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;

for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ,

And Agrippa said unto Festus, 'I was wishing also myself to hear the man;' and he said, 'To-morrow thou shalt hear him;'

And Agrippa said unto Paul, 'It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;' then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence:

and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

and they were all amazed, so as to reason among themselves, saying, 'What is this? what new teaching [is] this? that with authority also the unclean spirits he commandeth, and they obey him!'

'A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;

again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;