Acts 17:20 - English Standard Version 2016

²⁰ For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.”

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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

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 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;