Acts 17:20

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Summary

Acts 17:20

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

Strange

Bible References

Strange

Though I were to write out for him
ten thousand points of My instruction,
they would be regarded as something strange.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “I assure you: It will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven!

But the disciples were astonished at His words. Again Jesus said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”

Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion

among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand.

So they are surprised that you don’t plunge with them into the same flood of wild living—and they slander you.