Acts 17:19
And they took and brought him to the Areopagus, and said, May we know what this new doctrine is, of which thou speakest?
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
20For thou bringest strange things to our ears; we would therefore know what these things mean.
Cross References
Matthew 10:18And ye shall be brought before governors and kings on my account, for a testimony to them and to the nations:
John 13:34A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; ---as I have loved you, that ye also love one another: for by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples,
Acts 17:22Then Paul stood up in the midst of the Areopagus and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that you are indeed over-much religious:
Acts 25:22Then Agrippa said to Festus, I should be willing to hear the man myself. And he said, thou shalt hear him to-morrow.
1 John 2:7Brethren, I write not a new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning:
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 →