Luke highlights in this chapter the beginning of the apostle Paul's ministry and the journey he makes to the Jewish synagogue, specifically I want to highlight the visit he makes to Athens in the Areopagus, when he stands up he tells the Athenians that he has observed that they are " very religious ", by the inscription they have in one of the altars about" the God unknown ".
Recall that Athens was the religious center of the Greco-Roman world, there were more statues of gods in Athens than in the rest of Greece, so the phrase "very religious" was not a compliment, but the acceptance of a reality, could be understood as " very superticiosos2, then, unconsciously, in that inscription were the true words of the Athenians, since, did not know the true God, then, despite their religiosity the Athenians ignored God.
For the Greeks. the idea of ​​the resurrection was something ridiculous, because they believed that death was the liberation of the soul from the prison of the body.