American Standard Version
"For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. "
— Acts 17:20, American Standard Version
“For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.”
“For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."”
“For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean.””
“For thou bringest in certain new things to our ears. We would know therefore what these things mean.”
“For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.”
“For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.”
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with them that met him.
And certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What would this babbler say? others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
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?
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)
And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are very religious.
For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you.