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

Proverbs 23:9

Proverbs 26:12

1 Corinthians 3:18

Jesus

General references

1 Corinthians 1:27

Bible References

Philosophers

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Encountered

Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen.

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

As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things,

Babbler

Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

Jesus

because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."

that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."

For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,

General references

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;