Acts 17:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Also some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some said, “What does this pretentious babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities.” (This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)

Cross References

Proverbs 23:9

Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, who will only despise the wisdom of your words.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.

Mark 9:14

When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them and some scribes arguing with them.

Luke 11:53

When he went outside, the scribes and the Pharisees became hostile to him and began to interrogate him about many things,

Acts 26:23

that the Messiah must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the gentiles.”

Acts 4:2

much annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming that in Jesus there is the resurrection of the dead.

Acts 5:42

And every day in the temple and at home they did not cease to teach and proclaim Jesus as the Messiah.

Acts 6:9

Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and others of those from Cilicia and Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 3:18

Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.

1 Corinthians 4:10

We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are sensible people in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.

Colossians 2:8

Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental principles of the world, and not according to Christ.