Acts 17:20
World English Bible (WEB)
For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
In context
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.
22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
Acts 17:20 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
- KJV King James Version
- For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they 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.