NASB
""For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.""
— Acts 17:20, NASB
“For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.”
“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 was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present.
And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"--because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming?
"For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)
So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects.
"For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.