Acts 17:20

Acts 17:20

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:

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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For thou bringest certain strange things (cenizonta gar tina eisfereiv). The very verb used by Xenophon (Mem. I) about Socrates. Cenizonta is present active neuter plural participle of cenizw and from cenov (verse Acts 17:18), "things surprising or shocking us."

We would know therefore (boulomeqa oun gnwnai). Very polite still, we wish or desire, and repeating gnwnai (the essential point).

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