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

professing to be wise, they became fools,

Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Beware lest there be some one who shall make a prey of you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.

Encountered

But some of those who belonged to the socalled synagogue of the Freedmen, and of the Cyrenaeans and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen;

And coming to the disciples, they saw a great multitude about them, and scribes debating with them.

And as he came out thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very spiteful, and to press him to speak off hand about many things,

Babbler

Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Jesus

inasmuch as he hath fixed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he hath appointed; having given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.

that the Christ should suffer, and that, as first of those raised from the dead, he was to proclaim light both to the people and to the gentiles.

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

For I delivered to you first of all what I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures;

General references

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the things which are strong;