Acts 17:18
Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also argued with him. “What is he going on about?” they wondered. Others concluded, “He seems to be teaching about some foreign gods,” because he was speaking about Jesus and the resurrection.
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Proverbs 23:9Don't talk to stupid people because they'll ridicule your wise words.
Mark 9:14When they returned to the other disciples, they saw them surrounded by a large crowd and some religious teachers arguing with them.
Acts 4:2They were angry that they were teaching the people, telling them that through Jesus there is resurrection from the dead.
Acts 17:31For he has set a time when he will rightly judge the world by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone that he is the one by raising him from the dead.”
Romans 1:22Even though they claimed to be wise, they became foolish.
1 Corinthians 1:20So how about the wise, the writers, and the philosophers of this age? Hasn't God turned the wisdom of this world into foolishness?
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 →