Acts 17:19

So they laid hold of him and took him to the Court of Areopagus. “May we hear,” they asked, “what new teaching this is which you are giving?

Twentieth Century 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

18Among others, some Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers joined issue with him. Some would ask “What is this prater wanting to make out?”, while others would say “He seems to be a Preacher of foreign Deities.” (This was because he was telling the Good News about Jesus and the Resurrection).

20For you are bringing some strange things to our notice, and we should like to know what they mean.”

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Cross References

Matthew 10:18and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, that you may witness for me before them and the nations.

John 13:34I give you a new commandment — Love one another; love one another as I have loved you.

Acts 17:22So Paul took his stand in the middle of the Court, and said — “Men of Athens, on every hand I see signs of your being very devout.

Acts 25:22“I should like to hear this man myself,” Agrippa said to Festus. “You shall hear him to-morrow,” Festus answered.

1 John 2:7Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing to you, but an old command, which you have had from the first. That old command is the Message to which you 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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