Acts 17:20

for you bring certain strange things to our ears? We resolve, then, to know what these things would wish to be”;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

In Context

19having also taken him, they brought [him] to the Areopagus, saying, “Are we able to know what this new teaching [is] that is spoken by you,

21and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.

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Cross References

Matthew 19:23and Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I say to you that hardly will a rich man enter into the kingdom of the heavens;

Mark 10:24And the disciples were astonished at His words, and Jesus again answering says to them, “Children, how hard it is to those trusting on riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!

John 7:35The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, “To where is this One about to go that we will not find Him? Is He about to go to the dispersion of the Greeks, and to teach the Greeks?

Acts 10:17And as Peter was perplexed in himself what the vision that he saw might be, then, behold, the men who have been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

1 Corinthians 1:23also we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

Hebrews 5:11concerning the Word, of whom we have much [to speak], and of hard explanation to say, since you have become dull of hearing,

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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