more likely, and if it was a trial, the charge against Paul was probably that he was introducing new deities to Athens, and one needed permission to do this. Paul had not obtained that permission. In this city Paul did not take the fairly simple approach of Acts 14 in arguing from nature. Instead, he built cultural bridges by borrowing from Greek authors whose writings could be used to support Paul’s message about Jesus. Luke thus has shown us two different ways to approach a primarily, if not exclusively,