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Acts 17:32
Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.
Acts 17:32 · Bible in Basic English
Acts 17:32 in other translations
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”
Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
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In context
29 If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.
30 Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:
31 Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.
32 Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.
33 And so Paul went away from among them.
34 But some men gave him their support: among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
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