Acts 17:20
“For thou bringest certaine strange things to our eares: we would know therefore what these things meane.”
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Acts 17:20 Context
18Then certaine Philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoikes, encountred him: and some said, What will this babbler say? Othersome, He seemeth to be a setter foorth of strange gods: because hee preached vnto them Iesus, and the resurrection. 19And they tooke him, and brought him vnto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20For thou bringest certaine strange things to our eares: we would know therefore what these things meane. 21(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to heare some new thing.) 22¶ Then Paul stood in the mids of Mars-hill, and said, Yee men of Athens, I perceiue that in all things yee are too superstitious.
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For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
- King James Version
"For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
- American Standard Version (1901)
For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.
- Basic English Bible
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.
- Darby Bible
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears; we would know therefore what these things mean.
- Webster's Bible
For the things you are saying sound strange to us. We should therefore like to be told exactly what they mean."
- Weymouth Bible
For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."
- World English Bible
For thou bringist ynne summe newe thingis to oure eeris; therfor we wolen wite, what these thingis wolen be.
- Wycliffe Bible
for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'
- Youngs Literal Bible