20You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they mean."


In Context

17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.

18 A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to dispute with him. Some of them asked, "What is this babbler trying to say?" Others remarked, "He seems to be advocating foreign gods." They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

19 Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

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

21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)

22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.

Acts 17:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:20For thou bringest in certain new things to our ears. We would know therefore what these things mean.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears; we would know therefore what these things mean.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:20For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:20for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:20For you bring certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.