“For you are bringing some strange matters to our ears. We wish, then, to know what these mean.”
in which they are surprised that you do not run with them in the same flood of loose behaviour, blaspheming,
But the natural man does not receive the matters of the Spirit of Elohim, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
yet we proclaim Messiah impaled, to the Yehuḏ
“I have written for him numerous matters of My Torah – they were regarded as strange.
For the word of the stake is indeed foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of Elohim.
concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
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And they were all amazed, and were puzzled, saying to each other, “What does this mean?”
Therefore many of His taught ones having heard, said, “This word is hard, who is able to hear it?”
And they kept this matter to themselves, debating what the rising from the dead meant.
So they laid hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “Are we able to know what this fresh teaching is of which you speak?
For all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their leisure time in doing naught but to speak or to hear what is fresh.