Acts 17:21

For all the Athenians, and strangers which dwelt there, gaue them selues to nothing els, but either to tell, or to heare some newes.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 bringest certaine strange thinges vnto our eares: we woulde knowe therefore, what these things meane.

22Then Paul stoode in the mids of Mars streete, and sayde, Yee men of Athens, I perceiue that in all things yee are too superstitious.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16Redeeming ye season: for ye daies are euill.

2 Thessalonians 3:11For we heare, that there are some which walke among you inordinately, and worke not at all, but are busie bodies.

2 Timothy 2:16Stay prophane, and vaine babblings: for they shall encrease vnto more vngodlinesse.

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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