Acts 17:20

Modern English Version

For you are bringing strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.”

Cross References

Hosea 8:12

I have written for him the great things of My law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.

Mark 9:10

They kept that statement to themselves, questioning each other what the rising from the dead meant.

John 6:60

When they heard this, many of His disciples said, “This is a hard saying. Who can listen to it?”

Acts 10:17

Now while Peter wondered what this vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius had inquired for Simon’s house and stood at the gate,

Acts 17:19

They took hold of him and led him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is of which you speak?

Acts 17:21

For all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing else, but either telling or hearing something new.

Acts 2:12

They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other, “What does this mean?”

1 Corinthians 1:18

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

1 Corinthians 1:23

But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Greeks.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Hebrews 5:11

Concerning this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become hard of hearing.

1 Peter 4:4

They are surprised that you do not join them in the same excess of wild living, and so they speak evil of you.