Acts 17:18
Then certain philosophers, both Epicureans and Stoics, encountered him. Some said, “What might this idea-scavenger want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
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Mark 9:14Upon coming to the disciples, He saw a large crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them.
Acts 4:2being upset because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 17:31because He has appointed a day in which He will judge the inhabited world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
Romans 1:22Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise one? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this 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 →