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Acts 17:20

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

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

In Context

19And taking him, they led him to the Areopagus, saying; Are we able to know what is this new teaching, spoken by thee?

21But all the Athenians and itinerant strangers were accustomed to devote their time to nothing else, than to tell something new, or to hear something.

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Cross References

Matthew 19:23And Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say unto you, that a rich man will hardly enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

Mark 10:24And the disciples were astonished at His words, and Jesus again responding, says to them, Children, how difficult it is to enter into the kingdom of God!

John 7:35Then the Jews said to themselves, Where is He about to go, that we shall not find Him? is He about to go into the Dispersion of the Greek, and teach the Greeks?

Acts 10:17And while Peter was at a loss within himself, as to what the vision he saw might be, behold, the men having been sent by Cornelius, making inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

1 Corinthians 1:23but we preach Christ having been crucified, to the Jews indeed a stumbling block, and to the Gentiles foolishness;

Hebrews 5:11Concerning whom there is much word to us, and difficult to speak, since you are dull of hearing.

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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