<p>17:21 <em>(Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing)</em>- As noted on :19 and :20, there was something radically gripping in the message of this Jesus of Nazareth, crucified and resurrected. The hearers were used to a diet of new things, they were not conservatives, they were wide open minded. Therefore the fact they were so gripped by this new message is all the more a testament to its power.</p>