For the things you are saying sound strange to us. We should therefore like to be told exactly what they mean.«
So they kept the matter to themselves, although frequently asking one another what was meant by the rising from the dead.
Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, »This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?«
While Peter was greatly perplexed as to the meaning of the vision which he had seen, just then the men sent by Cornelius, having by inquiry found out Simon's house,
Then they took him and brought him up to the Areopagus, asking him, »May we be told what this new teaching of yours is?
(For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)
They were all astounded and bewildered, and asked one another, »What can this mean?«
For the Message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are on the way to perdition, but it is the power of God to those whom He is saving.
while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified–to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,
The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God, and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they are spiritually judged.
Concerning Him we have much to say, and much that it would be difficult to make clear to you, since you have become so dull of apprehension.
At this they are astonished–that you do not run into the same excess of profligacy as they do; and they speak abusively of you.