Acts 17:20

New American Bible - revised edition

For you bring some strange notions to our ears; we should like to know what these things mean.”

Cross References

Hosea 8:12

Though I write for him my many instructions, they are considered like a stranger’s.

Mark 9:10

So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what rising from the dead meant.

John 6:60

Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”

Acts 10:17

While Peter was in doubt about the meaning of the vision he had seen, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon’s house and arrived at the entrance.

Acts 17:19

They took him and led him to the Areopagus and said, “May we learn what this new teaching is that you speak of?

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians as well as the foreigners residing there used their time for nothing else but telling or hearing something new. Paul’s Speech at the Areopagus.

Acts 2:12

They were all astounded and bewildered, and said to one another, “What does this mean?”

1 Corinthians 1:18

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

1 Corinthians 1:23

but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 2:14

Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually.

Hebrews 5:11

About this we have much to say, and it is difficult to explain, for you have become sluggish in hearing.

1 Peter 4:4

They are surprised that you do not plunge into the same swamp of profligacy, and they vilify you;