Acts 17:19

So they took him to the Areopagus, and asked him, “Please tell us about this new teaching that you're promoting.

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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

18Some 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.

20We're hearing from you things that sound odd to us, so we'd like to know what they mean.”

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Cross References

Matthew 10:18You will be dragged before governors and kings because of me, to witness to them and to the foreigners.

John 13:34I am giving you a new command: Love one another. Love one another in the same way I have loved you.

Acts 17:22Paul stood up right in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “People of Athens, I notice you are very religious about everything.

Acts 25:22“I would like to hear the man myself,” Agrippa told Festus. “I'll arrange for you to hear him tomorrow,” Festus replied.

1 John 2:7My friends, I'm not writing to you giving some new commandment, but an old commandment you've had from the beginning. This old commandment is one you have already heard.

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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