Acts 17:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 Cross References

Hosea 8:12

Though I write for him my law in ten thousand precepts, they are counted as a strange thing.

Mark 9:10

And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the rising again from the dead should mean.

John 6:60

Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?

Acts 10:17

Now while Peter was much perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men that were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood before the gate,

Acts 17:19

And they took hold of him, and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by thee?

Acts 17:21

(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)

Acts 2:12

And they were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, What meaneth this?

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the word of the cross is to them that are perishing foolishness; but unto us which are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:23

but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;

1 Corinthians 2:14

Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

Hebrews 5:11

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

1 Peter 4:4

wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: