Acts 17:20

For thou bring some surprising things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know whatever these things aim to be.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

In Context

19And having taken him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, Can we understand what this new doctrine is, being spoken by thee?

21Now all the Athenians, and the foreigners who dwell alien there, were at leisure in nothing else, than to tell or to hear something new.

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Cross References

Matthew 19:23And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, that a rich man will enter into the kingdom of the heavens difficultly.

Mark 10:24And the disciples were astonished at his words. But again having answered, Jesus says to them, Children, how difficult it is for those who trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God.

John 7:35The Jews therefore said among themselves, Where is this man going to go that we will not find him? Is he going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

Acts 10:17Now while Peter was bewildered in himself whatever the vision which he saw might be, that lo, the men who were sent from Cornelius, having inquired the house of Simon, stood at the gate.

1 Corinthians 1:23but we proclaim Christ crucified, truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness.

Hebrews 5:11About whom, much subject matter from us is also difficult to explain, since ye have become sluggish in hearing.

Matthew Henry on Acts 17:17-22

Paul at Athens. 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. 17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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