Acts 17:20

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For you bring some strange things to our ears; we wish to know therefore what these things mean.”

Cross References

Hosea 8:12

Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.

Mark 9:10

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

John 6:60

Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”

Acts 10:17

Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men that were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood before the gate

Acts 17:19

And they took hold of him and brought him to the Are-opagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is which you present?

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.

Acts 2:12

And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the word of the cross is folly 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 folly to Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Hebrews 5:11

About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

1 Peter 4:4

They are surprised that you do not now join them in the same wild profligacy, and they abuse you;