Acts 17:20

20 You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.”

Acts 17:20 in Other Translations

20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

20 For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean."

20 “You are saying some rather strange things, and we want to know what it’s all about.”

20 Explain it so we can understand."

20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

20 Some of the things you say sound strange to us. So we would like to know what they mean."

20 For what you say sounds strange to us, and we want to know what these ideas mean."

20 You have some strange ideas. We've never heard them before. We want to know what they 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 A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

19 Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

20 You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.”

21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)

22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.