Acts 17:20

For you bring some strange things to our ears: we wish to understand then what these things mean.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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 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?

21For all the Athenians and resident strangers have leisure for nothing else than to tell or to hear some new thing.

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Cross References

Matthew 19:23Jesus said to his disciples: Verily I say to you, A rich man will with difficulty enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 10:24And his disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus, answering again, said to them: Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God!

John 7:35Then the Jews said among themselves: Whither is this man about to go, that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to those who are dispersed among the Greeks, and to teach the Greeks?

Acts 10:17Now, while Peter was perplexed within himself about the meaning of the vision which he had seen, behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon, stood before the gate.

1 Corinthians 1:23but we preach Christ crucified; to the Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks, foolishness:

Hebrews 5:11Of him we have many things to say, and difficult to be explained, if we do say them, since you are slow in understanding.

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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