Acts 17:21

Moreover, all Athenians and the[plural] foreign/guest-ive peopling-upon have-been-being-well-seasoning[i.e. having opportunity] into nothing different-other than to-be-saying what also newer to-be-hearing.

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

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 you-are-carrying-into some[plural] foreign-izing into the hearings[noun] of{us}. So, we-are-intending to-know what[plural][?] it-is-will-ing the-same to-be-being."

22Moreover, the Paul, be[ing]-stood in to{midst} of{the Ares/Mars Pagos[Latin pagus, "district"]/rocky-hill [Areopagus at Athens]}, has-been-asserting, "Men, Athenians, I-am-observing you according-to all as more-religious/superstitious,

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16purchasing-selves-out the season, that the days are-being evil.

2 Thessalonians 3:11for we-are-hearing some walking-around in to{you} unset-ly/disorderly/unstably, work-izing-selves nothing; contrariwise, work-izing-selves-around.

2 Timothy 2:16Moreover, be-standing-self-around[i.e. not within] the defiled/unhallowed/profane empty-sound-ias/chatterings, for they-will-progress upon much-more of{undevotion},

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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