Acts 17:20

New International Version

You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.”

Cross References

Hosea 8:12

I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something foreign.

Mark 9:10

They kept the matter to themselves, discussing what “rising from the dead” meant.

John 6:60

On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”

Acts 10:17

While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found out where Simon’s house was and stopped at the gate.

Acts 17:19

Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

Acts 17:21

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)

Acts 2:12

Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

1 Corinthians 1:18

For 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 preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 2:14

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

Hebrews 5:11

We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.

1 Peter 4:4

They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.