Acts 17:20
For you are bringing some strange things to our notice, and we should like to know what they mean.’
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Matthew 19:23At this, Jesus said to his disciples, ‘I tell you that a rich person will find it hard to enter the kingdom of heaven!
Mark 10:24The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, ‘My children, how hard a thing it is to enter the kingdom of God!
John 7:35‘Where is this man going,’ the people asked one another, ‘that we would not find him? Will he go to our countrymen abroad, and teach foreigners?
Acts 10:17While Peter was still perplexed as to the meaning of the vision that he had seen, the men sent by Cornelius, having enquired the way to Simon’s house, came up to the gate,
1 Corinthians 1:23we are proclaiming Christ crucified! – to the Jews an obstacle, to the Gentiles mere folly,
Hebrews 5:11Now on this subject I have much to say, but it is difficult to explain it to you, because you have shown yourselves so slow to learn.
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 →