Acts 17:19
And they took him, and brought him to Mars hill, saying: Are we able to understand what this new teaching is, which is announced by you?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
20For you bring some strange things to our ears: we wish to understand then what these things mean.
Cross References
Matthew 10:18and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
Acts 17:22Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said: Men of Athens, I perceive that in all respects your reverence for demons excels that of other men.
Acts 25:22And Agrippa said to Festus: I could wish to have heard the man myself. He replied: To-morrow you shall hear him.
1 John 2:7Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word, which you have heard from the beginning.
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 →