Acts 17:21

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

In Context

20For you bring some strange things to our ears: we wish to understand then what these things mean.

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.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

2 Thessalonians 3:11For we hear that some walk about among you in a disorderly manner, doing no work, but being busybodies.

2 Timothy 2:16But shun profane and vain babblings; for they will make further advance to ungodliness,

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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