Acts 17:20 “For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to…”

Acts 17:20

For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For thou bringest certaine strange thinges vnto our eares: we woulde knowe therefore, what these things meane.

Darby Translation

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.

Young's Literal Translation

for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

Bible in Basic English

For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.

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Cross references

“strange”

Hosea 8:12 1 Corinthians 1:23 1 Corinthians 2:14 1 Corinthians 1:18 1 Peter 4:4 Matthew 19:23–25

Hosea 8:12 · BSB

Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

1 Corinthians 1:23 · BSB

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 2:14 · BSB

The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 1:18 · BSB

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Peter 4:4 · BSB

Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.

Matthew 19:23–25 · BSB

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

“what”

Acts 2:12 Acts 10:17 Mark 9:10

Acts 2:12 · BSB

Astounded and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

Acts 10:17 · BSB

While Peter was puzzling over the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house and approached the gate.

Mark 9:10 · BSB

So they kept this matter to themselves, discussing what it meant to rise from the dead.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

21Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

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