Acts 17:19
And they took him and brought him to the place of judgments called Areopagus, and said to him: May we know what this new doctrine which thou preachest is?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
20For thou scatterest in our ears strange words; and we wish to know what they are.
Cross References
Matthew 10:18And they will bring you before governors and kings, on my account, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, that ye be affectionate to each other. As I have loved you, do ye also love one another.
Acts 17:22And as Paul stood in the Areopagus, he said: Men, Athenians, I perceive that in all things ye are excessive in the worship of demons.
Acts 25:22And Agrippa said: I should like to hear that man. And Festus said: To-morrow thou shalt hear him.
1 John 2:7My beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but the old commandment which ye had from the beginning; and the old commandment is the word, which ye 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 →