Acts 17:20
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
In context
18 Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.
19 So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
20 For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
21 Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.
22 Then Paul 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 every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
- KJV King James Version
- For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
- WEB World English Bible
- For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
- YLT 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;'
- DBY Darby Translation
- For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears; we would know therefore what these things mean.