Athens
Where Paul proclaimed the "Unknown God" to philosophers on Mars' hill.
First mentioned in the Bible
For instance, while passing along and carefully observing your objects of veneration, I found even an altar on which had been inscribed ‘To an Unknown God.’ Therefore, what you are unknowingly worshipping, this I am declaring to you.— Acts 17:23
Background
Athens was the center of Greek philosophy and art, a city wholly given to idolatry. Stirred in spirit at the sight of its idols, Paul disputed in the synagogue and the marketplace, then delivered his famous address on Mars' hill — beginning from an altar inscribed "TO THE UNKNOWN GOD" and leading to the one true God who made all things and raised Jesus from the dead.
Related Scriptures (New World Translation)
For instance, while passing along and carefully observing your objects of veneration, I found even an altar on which had been inscribed ‘To an Unknown God.’ Therefore, what you are unknowingly worshipping, this I am declaring to you.— Acts 17:23
Because he has set a day on which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has provided a guarantee to all men by resurrecting him from the dead.— Acts 17:31
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