Acts 17:19

They took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know this new teaching which you were speaking?

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And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

In Context

18But also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. Some said, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be one who calls people to follow strange gods,” because he was proclaiming Jesus and the resurrection.

20For you bring some strange things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know what these things mean.”

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Cross References

Matthew 10:18Then you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

John 13:34I am giving you a new commandment, that you should love one another; as I have loved you, so also you should love one another.

Acts 17:22So Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every way.

Acts 25:22Agrippa spoke to Festus, “I would also like to listen to this man.” “Tomorrow,” Festus said, “you will hear him.”

1 John 2:7Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you heard.

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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