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


In Context

17 therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.

18 And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, 'What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, 'Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

19 having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought him, saying, 'Are we able to know what is this new teaching that is spoken by thee,

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

21 and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.

22 And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, 'Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

17:20You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they 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 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.