Acts 17:20

New English Translation

For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean.”

Cross References

Hosea 8:12

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!

Mark 9:10

They kept this statement to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead meant.

John 6:60

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

Acts 10:17

Now while Peter was puzzling over what the vision he had seen could signify, the men sent by Cornelius had learned where Simon’s house was and approached the gate.

Acts 17:19

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

Acts 17:21

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)

Acts 2:12

All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the message about 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 preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Hebrews 5:11

On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

1 Peter 4:4

So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.