Acts 17:19

So taking him in tow they led him to the Areopagus and said: “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

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In The King James Version

And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

In Context

18Then 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.

20Because you are bringing some strange things to our ears, and we would like to know what they might mean.”

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Cross References

Matthew 10:18And you will be brought before governors and even kings for my sake, as a testimony to them and to the nations.

John 13:34“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you —that you also love one another.

Acts 17:22So standing in the middle of the Areopagus Paul said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious;

Acts 25:22Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I myself would also like to hear the man.” So he said, “Tomorrow you shall hear him.”

1 John 2:7Brothers, I am not writing a new commandment to you but an old one that you have had from the beginning; this old commandment is the word that you have heard from the beginning.

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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