Acts 17:20

For the things you are saying sound strange to us. We should therefore like to be told exactly what they mean."

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

In Context

19Then they took him and brought him up to the Areopagus, asking him, "May we be told what this new teaching of yours is?

21(For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)

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Cross References

Matthew 19:23So Jesus said to His disciples, "I solemnly tell you that it is with difficulty that a rich man will enter the Kingdom of the Heavens.

Mark 10:24The disciples were amazed at His words. Jesus, however, said again, "Children, how hard a struggle is it for those who trust in riches to enter the Kingdom of God!

John 7:35The Jews therefore said to one another, "Where is he about to betake himself, so that we shall not find him? Will he betake himself to the Dispersion among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?

Acts 10:17While Peter was greatly perplexed as to the meaning of the vision which he had seen, just then the men sent by Cornelius, having by inquiry found out Simon's house,

1 Corinthians 1:23while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,

Hebrews 5:11Concerning Him we have much to say, and much that it would be difficult to make clear to you, since you have become so dull of apprehension.

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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