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Acts 17:20
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears; we would know therefore what these things mean.
Acts 17:20 · Webster Bible
Acts 17:20 in other translations
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
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In context
17 Therefore he disputed 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? some others, He seemeth to be a setter-forth of strange gods: because he preached to them Jesus, and the resurrection.
19 And they took him, and brought him to Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine [is], of which thou speakest?
20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears; we would know therefore what these things mean.
21 (For all the Athenians and strangers who were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, [Ye] men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I to you.
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