Acts 17:20

20 For thou bringest certain new things to our ears; we desire, therefore, to know what these things mean.

Acts 17:20 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 17:20

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears
Strange doctrines and strange deities, such as they had never heard of before:

we would know therefore what these things mean;
they desire he would explain these things to them, and let them know the rise, and ground, and nature, and end, and design of them.

Acts 17:20 In-Context

18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? others, He seems to be a setter forth of new gods, because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection.

19 And they took him and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is, of which thou speakest?

20 For thou bringest certain new things to our ears; we desire, therefore, to know what these things mean.

21 (For all the Athenians and strangers who were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)

22 Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, {Mars’ Hill}, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.