Acts 17:20
For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we desire to know what these things might mean.”
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Matthew 19:23Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly I say to you, that with difficulty a rich man shall enter the kingdom of heaven.
Mark 10:24And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus, answering again, said to them, “Children, how difficult it is for those who trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
John 7:35Therefore the Jews said among themselves, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? Does He intend to go into the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
Acts 10:17Now as Peter was very perplexed within himself as to what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius, having found by inquiry the house of Simon, stood at the gateway.
1 Corinthians 1:23but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness,
Hebrews 5:11concerning whom we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing. 1 Warning Against Apostasy
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 →