The things you are saying are new to us, and we want to know what this teaching means.”
I have written many teachings for them, but they think the teachings are strange and foreign.
So the followers obeyed Jesus, but they discussed what he meant about rising from the dead.
When the followers of Jesus heard this, many of them said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?”
While Peter was wondering what this vision meant, the men Cornelius sent had found Simon’s house and were standing at the gate.
They got Paul and took him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said, “Please explain to us this new idea you have been teaching.
(All the people of Athens and those from other countries who lived there always used their time to talk about the newest ideas.)
They were all amazed and confused, asking each other, “What does this mean?”
The teaching about the cross is foolishness to those who are being lost, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
But we preach a crucified Christ. This causes the Jews to stumble and is foolishness to non-Jews.
A person who does not have the Spirit does not accept the truths that come from the Spirit of God. That person thinks they are foolish and cannot understand them, because they can only be judged to be true by the Spirit.
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are so slow to understand.
Nonbelievers think it is strange that you do not do the many wild and wasteful things they do, so they insult you.