Where is Mars' Hill (the Areopagus)?
Mars' Hill, the Areopagus, is a rocky outcrop in Athens below the Acropolis where the city's council met. There Paul preached the unknown God to the Athenian philosophers. "Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens" (Acts 17:22).
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When Paul came to Athens on his second journey (Acts 17:15), the philosophers brought him up to the Areopagus, the KJV's "Mars’ hill," the hill of the city's ancient council. "Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious" (17:22). He had found there an altar inscribed "TO THE UNKNOWN GOD" (17:23), and he declared that God to them: the One who "made the world and all things therein" (17:24) and who "now commandeth all men every where to repent" (17:30). The hill still stands in Athens below the Acropolis.
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