Acts 17:20

God's Word

Some of the things you say sound strange to us. So we would like to know what they mean.”

Cross References

Hosea 8:12

I have written many things for them in my teachings, but they consider these things strange and foreign.

Mark 9:10

They kept in mind what he said but argued among themselves what he meant by “come back to life.”

John 6:60

When many of Jesus’ disciples heard him, they said, “What he says is hard to accept. Who wants to listen to him anymore?”

Acts 10:17

While Peter was puzzled by the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house and went to the gate.

Acts 17:19

Then they brought Paul to the city court, the Areopagus, and asked, “Could you tell us these new ideas that you’re teaching?

Acts 17:21

Everyone who lived in Athens looked for opportunities to tell or hear something new and unusual.

Acts 2:12

All of these devout men were stunned and puzzled. They asked each other, “What can this mean?”

1 Corinthians 1:18

The message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

1 Corinthians 1:23

but our message is that Christ was crucified. This offends Jewish people and makes no sense to people who are not Jewish.

1 Corinthians 2:14

A person who isn’t spiritual doesn’t accept the teachings of God’s Spirit. He thinks they’re nonsense. He can’t understand them because a person must be spiritual to evaluate them.

Hebrews 5:11

We have a lot to explain about this. But since you have become too lazy to pay attention, explaining it to you is hard.

1 Peter 4:4

Unbelievers insult you now because they are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of wild living.