Acts 17:20
"For you are bringing certain strange things to our ears. We want to know, therefore, what these things mean."
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Matthew 19:23So Jesus said to his disciples. "In solemn truth I tell you that a rich man will find it difficult to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Mark 10:24The disciples were amazed at his words. Jesus looked around and said again to them.
John 7:35Then the Jews said to one another. "Where does this fellow intend to go, so that we shall not find him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and to teach the Greeks, is he?
Acts 10:17Now while Peter was greatly perplexed to know what the vision which he had been sent by Cornelius, and had made inquiries for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,
1 Corinthians 1:23but we come preaching a crucified Messiah - to Jews a stumbling- block, to Greeks foolishness,
Hebrews 5:11Concerning him I have much to say, and much that is hard to make clear to you, because you have grown 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 →