Verse 17
17. Synagogue Paul was not the first Jew in Athens. And wherever there were ten Jews there was likely to be a synagogue. To the synagogue the apostle goes to offer Christ before he presents him to the agora; “to the Jew first,” even in Athens, “and also to the Gentile.”
Devout persons Athenians inclined to renounce idolatry and adore the true Jehovah.
Them that met with him To three classes then did Paul open his mission: to the Jews, to the monotheists, and to the accidental Athenians in the agora.
It was peculiarly to this last class and in the same agora that Socrates unfolded those doctrines for which he drank the fatal hemlock.
In the market In the part of the market or agora nearest the Acropolis was the famous stoa or porch, (called the ποικιλη στοα . or Variegated Porch,) from which the Stoic sect of philosophers was named.
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