Acts 17:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ It sounds rather strange to us, so we would like to know what it means.”

Flere versioner

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ For you set forth some startling things, foreign and strange to our ears; we wish to know therefore just what these things mean–

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

Common English Bible

²⁰ You’ve told us some strange things and we want to know what they mean.” (

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ For you bring certain new ideas to our ears. And so we would like to know what these things mean."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ For thou bringest in certain new things to our ears. We would know therefore what these things mean.

Acts 17:20 Krydshenvisninger

Hosea 8:12

Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions, they are regarded as a strange thing.

Mark 9:10

So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead could mean.

John 6:60

When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?”

Acts 10:17

Now while Peter was greatly puzzled about what to make of the vision that he had seen, suddenly the men sent by Cornelius appeared. They were asking for Simon’s house and were standing by the gate.

Acts 17:19

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

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something new.

Acts 2:12

All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

1 Corinthians 1:18

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

1 Corinthians 1:23

but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to gentiles,

1 Corinthians 2:14

Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Hebrews 5:11

About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

1 Peter 4:4

They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme.