Acts 17:21

You see, the Athens people, and the people from other places that lived there, they liked to talk about new ideas all the time, and they liked to hear anything new that other people told them.

Plain English Version

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

20We are surprised when we hear some of the things you say, and we want to understand what you mean.”

22Then Paul stood up and talked to the council mob at Athens. He said, “I can see that you Athens mob think a lot about gods.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16Do good things every time you can, because lots of people do lots of bad things these days.

2 Thessalonians 3:11You see, somebody told us that there are some lazy people there with you that never want to do any work. They just go around talking about people in a bad way and messing up other people’s lives.

2 Timothy 2:16Stay away from people that teach useless stories that give God no respect, because if somebody talks like that, they just push people away from God.

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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