Acts 17:19

World English Bible (WEB)

They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?

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17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

19 They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?

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

21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

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Acts 17:19 in every translation

WEB World English Bible: They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
KJV King James Version: And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
BSB Berean Standard Bible: 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?
ASV American Standard Version: And they took hold of him, and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by thee?
YLT Young's Literal Translation: 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,
DBY Darby Translation: And having taken hold on him they brought [him] to Areopagus, saying, Might we know what this new doctrine which is spoken by thee [is]?
WBS Webster Bible: And they took him, and brought him to Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is , of which thou speakest?