Acts 17:18
But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection [to them].
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Proverbs 23:9Speak not in the ears of a foolish [man], for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Mark 9:14And when he came to the disciples he saw a great crowd around them, and scribes disputing against them.
Acts 4:2being distressed on account of their teaching the people and preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among [the] dead;
Acts 17:31because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by [the] man whom he has appointed, giving the proof [of it] to all [in] having raised him from among [the] dead.
Romans 1:22professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
1 Corinthians 1:20Where [is the] wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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 →