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Acts 17:20

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

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19And they took him and brought him to Mars' hill, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is, of which thou speakest?

21Now all the Athenians, and the strangers residing among them, spent their leisure for nothing else but to tell or to hear something new.

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Cross References

Matthew 19:23Then Jesus said to his disciples, Truly do I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 10:24And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answering again saith to them, Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

John 7:35The Jews therefore said among themselves, Whither will this man go, that we shall not find him? Will he go to the dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

Acts 10:17Now, while Peter was doubting within himself what the vision which he had seen meant, lo! the men who were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate;

1 Corinthians 1:23but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling-block, and to gentiles foolishness,

Hebrews 5:11Of whom we have much to say, and hard to be explained, seeing ye 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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