Acts 17:21

(All Athenians and the foreigners staying in the city found no time for anything else but telling, or listening to, the last new thing.)

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In The King James Version

(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

In Context

20For you are bringing some strange things to our notice, and we should like to know what they mean.”

22So Paul took his stand in the middle of the Court, and said – “People of Athens, on every hand I see signs of your being very devout.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16making the most of every opportunity; for these are evil days.

2 Thessalonians 3:11We hear that there are among you people who are living ill-ordered lives, and who, instead of attending to their own business, are mere busybodies.

2 Timothy 2:16Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways,

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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