Acts 17:19

Then they laid hold of him and brought him up to Mars Hill, saying. "May we be told what this new teaching of yours is?

Montgomery New Testament

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

18A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him again and again. Some were saying, "What has this beggarly fellow to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

20"For you are bringing certain strange things to our ears. We want to know, therefore, what these things mean."

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Cross References

Matthew 10:18"And you will be taken before governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

John 13:34I give you a new commandment, Love one another!

Acts 17:22So Paul stood up in the center of Mars Hill, and said. "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all respects you are remarkably religious.

Acts 25:22"I should like to hear the man, myself," said Agrippa to Festus. Festus answered, "You shall hear him tomorrow."

1 John 2:7Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, nay, and old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. That old commandment is the message to which you have listened.

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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