Acts 17:20 - Easy To Read Version

²⁰ The things that you are saying are new to us. We have never heard these things before. We want to know what this teaching means.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ For you set forth some startling things, foreign and strange to our ears; we wish to know therefore just what these things mean–

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

Common English Bible

²⁰ You’ve told us some strange things and we want to know what they mean.” (

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ For you bring certain new ideas to our ears. And so we would like to know what these things mean."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ For thou bringest in certain new things to our ears. We would know therefore what these things mean.

Acts 17:20 Tagairtí Cros

Hosea 8:12

Even if I wrote 10,000 laws for Ephraim,\par he would treat them like they were\par for some stranger.\par

Mark 9:10

So the followers obeyed Jesus and said nothing about what they saw. But they discussed what Jesus meant about rising from death.

John 6:60

The followers of Jesus heard this. Many of the followers said, “This teaching is hard \{to accept\}. Who can accept this teaching?”

Acts 10:17

Peter wondered what this vision {\cf2\super [205]} meant.

Acts 17:19

They got Paul and took him to a meeting of the Areopagus council. {\cf2\super [354]} They said, “Please explain to us this new idea that you have been teaching.

Acts 17:21

(All the people of Athens and the people from other countries who lived there always used their time talking about all the newest ideas.)

Acts 2:12

The people were all amazed and confused. They asked each other, “What is happening?”

1 Corinthians 1:18

The teaching about the cross seems foolish to those people that are lost. But to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:23

But this is the message we tell everyone: Christ was killed on a cross. This message is a big problem to the Jews. And the non-Jews think it is foolish.

1 Corinthians 2:14

A person that is not spiritual does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. That person thinks that those things are foolish. That person cannot understand the things of the Spirit, because those things can only be judged spiritually.

1 Peter 4:4

Those non-believers think that it is strange that you don’t do the many wild and wasteful things that they do. And so they say bad things about you.