18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because he was preaching ^yJesus and the resurrection.

Christ the Wisdom and Power of God

18 For the word of the cross is ^cfolly ^dto those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the ^epower of God.

24 And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind.”