Acts 17:20

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

We have heard you say some strange things, and we want to know what you mean.”

Cross References

Hosea 8:12

My instructions for sacrifices were written in detail, but you ignored them.

Mark 9:10

So they kept it to themselves. But they wondered what he meant by the words “raised from death”.

John 6:60

Many of Jesus' disciples heard him and said, “This is too hard for anyone to understand.”

Acts 10:17

Peter was still wondering what all this meant, when the men sent by Cornelius came and stood at the gate. They had found their way to Simon's house

Acts 17:19

They brought Paul before a council called the Areopagus, and said, “Tell us what your new teaching is all about.

Acts 17:21

More than anything else the people of Athens and the foreigners living there loved to hear and to talk about anything new.

Acts 2:12

Everyone was excited and confused. Some of them even kept asking each other, “What does all this mean?”

1 Corinthians 1:18

The message about the cross doesn't make any sense to lost people. But for those of us who are being saved, it is God's power at work.

1 Corinthians 1:23

But we preach that Christ was nailed to a cross. Most Jews have problems with this, and most Gentiles think it is foolish.

1 Corinthians 2:14

That's why only someone who has God's Spirit can understand spiritual blessings. Anyone who doesn't have God's Spirit thinks these blessings are foolish.

Hebrews 5:11

Much more could be said about this subject. But it is hard to explain, and all of you are slow to understand.

1 Peter 4:4

Now your former friends wonder why you have stopped running around with them, and they curse you for it.