Acts 17:19

And taking him, they led him to the Areopagus, saying; Are we able to know what is this new teaching, spoken by thee?

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18And certain ones of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers interviewed him, and some continued to say, What would this babbler wish to say? and others said, He seems to be the propagator of strange divinities: because he was preaching the gospel of Jesus, and the resurrection.

20For you bring certain strange things to our hearing: therefore we desire to know what these things wish to be.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:18and they will lead you before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them and the Gentiles.

John 13:34I give unto a new commandment, That you must love one another with divine love; as I have loved you with divine love, that you must also love one another with divine love:

Acts 17:22And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said, Athenian men, I perceive that in all things you are very religious.

Acts 25:22And Agrippa said to Festus, I myself also would wish to hear the man. He says, To-morrow you shall hear him.

1 John 2:7Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but the old one which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have 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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