Acts 17:20

The English Standar Version

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 the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.

Mark 9:10

So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead might mean.

John 6:60

When many of his disciples heard it, they 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 that he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood at the gate

Acts 17:19

And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend 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 natural person does not accept the things 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, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

1 Peter 4:4

With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;