Acts 17:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

Philosophers

Romans 1:22

1 Corinthians 1:20

Colossians 2:8

Encountered

Acts 6:9

Mark 9:14

Luke 11:53

Babbler

1 Corinthians 3:18

Jesus

General references

1 Corinthians 1:27

Bible References

Philosophers

Though claiming to be wise, they made fools of themselves,

So where is your philosopher? Where is your man of letters? Where is your logician of this age? Has not God shown up the nonsense of the world's wisdom?

Take care that nobody captures you by the idle fancies of his so-called philosophy, following human tradition and the world's crude notions instead of Christ.

Encountered

But members of the synagogue known as that of the Libyans, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia, got to debating with Stephen,

When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them and some scribes arguing with them.

After He left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be violently enraged against Him and to try to draw Him out on many subjects,

Babbler

Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in this world's wisdom, as compared with the rest of you, to become really wise he must become a fool.

Jesus

since He has set a day on which He will justly judge the world through a man whom He has appointed. He has made this credible to all by raising Him from the dead."

if the Christ should suffer, and by being the first to rise from the dead was to proclaim the light to the Jewish people and to the heathen."

For Christ died and lived again for the very purpose of being Lord of both the dead and the living.

For I passed on to you, among the primary principles of the good news, what I had received, that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the Scriptures,

General references

Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame,