Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Yeshua and the resurrection.
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Proverbs 23:9Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Mark 9:14Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.
Acts 4:2being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Yeshua the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
Romans 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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 →