Acts 17:20

English Standard Version 2016

For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.”

Cross References

1 Peter 4:4

With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;

1 Corinthians 2:14

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 1:23

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,

Hosea 8:12

Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Hebrews 5:11

About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

Acts 10:17

Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood at the gate

Acts 2:12

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

John 6:60

When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”

Mark 9:10

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

Acts 17:19

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

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.