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Acts 17:20
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18 Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this2 babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them aJesus and the resurrection.  
19 And they took him and brought him to the1 Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak?  
20 For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.”
21 For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

Addressing the Areopagus

22 Then Paul stood in the midst of the1 Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious;  
23 for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:
Verse Comparison: Acts 17:20

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

Amplified® Bible
For you set forth some startling things, foreign {and} strange to our ears; we wish to know therefore just what these things mean--

Contemporary English Version
We have heard you say some strange things, and we want to know what you mean."

Darby English Version
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.

Good News Bible
Some of the things we hear you say sound strange to us, and we would like to know what they mean."

International Standard Version
It sounds rather strange to our ears, and we would like to know what it means."

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

New American Standard Bible
"For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."

New International Version
You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they mean."

New King James Version
For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.”

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"For you bring some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."

Young's Literal Translation
for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

New English Translation
For you are bringing some surprising things1 to our ears, so we want to know what they2 mean.”


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