Acts 17:21

But all the Athinoyee, and those foreigners who are there, of no other thing are careful, but to say and to hear something new.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 thou sowest foreign words in our hearing, and we desire to know what these things are.

22AND as Paulos stood on Arios-pagos he said, Men of Athinos, I observe you that in all (things) you exceed in the worship of demons.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16but as the wise who redeem their opportunity, because the days are evil.

2 Thessalonians 3:11For we hear that there are some among you who walk wickedly, and nothing work, unless vain things.

2 Timothy 2:16From vain words which have no utility in them withdraw; for they add greatly to the wickedness of those who are occupied with them.

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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