Acts 17:21

For all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there, cared for nothing else but to tell or to hear something new.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

In Context

20For thou scatterest in our ears strange words; and we wish to know what they are.

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.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16but like the wise, who purchase their opportunity; because the days are evil.

2 Thessalonians 3:11For we hear, there are some among you who walk wickedly, and do nothing except vain things.

2 Timothy 2:16Avoid vain discourses, in which there is no profit; for they very much add to the wickedness of those occupied with them.

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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