Acts 17
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Acts 17:18-21

18And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers as well were 1conversing with him. Some were saying, “What could 2this 3scavenger of tidbits want to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”--because he was preaching 4Jesus and the resurrection. 19And they 5took him and brought him 6to the 78Areopagus, saying, “May we know what 9this new teaching is 10which you are proclaiming? 20For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.” 21(Now all the Athenians and the strangers 11visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)

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Notes

  1. 1. Acts 17:18 Or disputing ↩
  2. 2. Acts 17:18 1 Cor 1:20; 4:10 ↩
  3. 3. Acts 17:18 Lit seed gatherer; i.e., an unlearned person collecting only scraps of knowledge ↩
  4. 4. Acts 17:18 Acts 4:2; 17:31f ↩
  5. 5. Acts 17:19 Acts 23:19 ↩
  6. 6. Acts 17:19 Or before ↩
  7. 7. Acts 17:19 Or Hill of Ares; Greek god of war ↩
  8. 8. Acts 17:19 Acts 17:22 ↩
  9. 9. Acts 17:19 Mark 1:27 ↩
  10. 10. Acts 17:19 Lit which is being spoken by you ↩
  11. 11. Acts 17:21 Acts 2:10 ↩

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