Acts 17:18

Also some of the Apikoros (Epicurean) and Stoic philosophers started conversing with Rav Sha'ul, and some were saying, What might this babbler wish to say? And others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities. They said this because of what Rav Sha'ul was proclaiming: Yehoshua and the Techiyas HaMesim.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, 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 resurrection.

In Context

17Therefore, Rav Sha'ul was dialoguing and arguing in the shul with the Yehudim and with the yirei Elohim and also in the marketplace yom yom + 17:17 street preaching to the ones who happened to be there.

19And having taken hold of Rav Sha'ul, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, Are we able to have da'as of what this new teaching is, which is being spoken by you?

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Cross References

Proverbs 23:9Speak not in the oznayim of a kesil (fool), 1 for he will despise the seichel of thy words. 1

Mark 9:14And when they returned to the talmidim, they saw a great multitude around them and [the] Sofrim (Scribes) arguing with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiachʼs talmidim.

Acts 4:2Being greatly annoyed, because they were teaching HaAm and preaching in Yehoshua the Techiyas HaMesim.

Acts 17:31Because he set a day in which he is about to bring MISHPAT + 17:31 Ps 9:8 on the Olam Hazeh in tzedek + 17:31 Dan 9:24 by an ISH + 17:31 Zech 6:12 whom he appointed, having furnished proof to all by having made him to stand up alive again from the Mesim. + 17:31 Ps 9:8; 96:13; 98:9; Isa 53:11 MEGILLOT YAM HAMELACH (DEAD SEA SCROLLS)

Romans 1:22Claiming to be chachamim (wise ones), they became kesilim (fools),

1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the chacham (wise man)? Where is the sofer (scribe) of the yeshiva, where is the talmid chacham? Where is the philosophical debater of the Olam Hazeh? Did not Hashem make the so-called chochmah (wisdom) of the Olam Hazeh to look like narrishkait? + 1:20 Isa 19:11,12; Job 12:17; Isa 44:25; Jer 8:9

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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