Parallel Verses
Godbey New Testament
For you bring certain strange things to our hearing: therefore we desire to know what these things wish to be.
New American Standard Bible
For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.”
King James Version
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Holman Bible
For what you say sounds strange to us, and we want to know what these ideas mean.”
International Standard Version
It sounds rather strange to our ears, and we would like to know what it means."
A Conservative Version
For thou bring some surprising things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know whatever these things aim to be.
American Standard Version
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Amplified
For you are bringing some startling and strange things to our ears; so we want to know what they mean.”
An Understandable Version
You are telling us some very unusual things and we would like to know what they mean."
Anderson New Testament
For you bring some strange things to our ears: we wish to understand then what these things mean.
Bible in Basic English
For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.
Common New Testament
For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."
Daniel Mace New Testament
for what you say sounds so very strange, we should be glad to know what it means.
Darby Translation
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.
Goodspeed New Testament
Some of the things you tell us sound strange to us, and we want to know just what they mean."
John Wesley New Testament
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears; we would therefore know, what these things mean?
Julia Smith Translation
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we wish therefore to know what these things may be.
King James 2000
For you bring certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you are bringing some astonishing things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what {these things mean}."
Modern King James verseion
For you bring certain strange things to our ears, therefore we are minded to know what these things mean.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thou bringest strange tidings to our ears. We would know therefore what these things mean."
Moffatt New Testament
You talk of some things that sound strange to us; so we want to know what they mean."
Montgomery New Testament
"For you are bringing certain strange things to our ears. We want to know, therefore, what these things mean."
NET Bible
For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean."
New Heart English Bible
For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."
Noyes New Testament
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We would know therefore what these things mean.
Sawyer New Testament
for you bring certain strange things to our ears; we wish therefore to know what these things mean.
The Emphasized Bible
For, certain foreign things, art thou bringing into our hearing: We are minded to get to know, therefore, what these things please to be!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For thou bringest some strange stories to our ears; we wish therefore to know what these things mean.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For you are bringing some strange things to our notice, and we should like to know what they mean."
Webster
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears; we would know therefore what these things mean.
Weymouth New Testament
For the things you are saying sound strange to us. We should therefore like to be told exactly what they mean."
Williams New Testament
For some of the things you bring sound startling to us; so we want to know just what they mean."
World English Bible
For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."
Worrell New Testament
for you bring to our ears certain strange things; we wish, therefore, to know what these things mean."
Worsley New Testament
For thou bringest strange things to our ears; we would therefore know what these things mean.
Youngs Literal Translation
for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'
Themes
Athens » A city » A city of greece
Curiosity » Instances of » Of the athenians, to hear some new thing
Missionary journeys » Ac 13-14 » Second - with silas
Paul's » First - with barnabas and john mark ac 13-14 » Second - with silas
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 17:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul In Athens
19 And taking him, they led him to the Areopagus, saying; Are we able to know what is this new teaching, spoken by thee? 20 For you bring certain strange things to our hearing: therefore we desire to know what these things wish to be. 21 But all the Athenians and itinerant strangers were accustomed to devote their time to nothing else, than to tell something new, or to hear something.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Peter 4:4
in which they are astonished you not running to the same excess of wrath, blaspheming;
Matthew 19:23-25
And Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say unto you, that a rich man will hardly enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
Mark 9:10
And they held the word to themselves, inquiring, what it is to rise from the dead.
Mark 10:24-26
And the disciples were astonished at His words, and Jesus again responding, says to them, Children, how difficult it is to enter into the kingdom of God!
John 6:60
Then many of His disciples, hearing, said, This is a hard sermon; who is able to hear it?
John 7:35-36
Then the Jews said to themselves, Where is He about to go, that we shall not find Him? is He about to go into the Dispersion of the Greek, and teach the Greeks?
Acts 2:12
And all were astounded and bewildered, saying one to another, What does this wish to be?
Acts 10:17
And while Peter was at a loss within himself, as to what the vision he saw might be, behold, the men having been sent by Cornelius, making inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is foolishness indeed to those who are lost; but to those who are saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:23
but we preach Christ having been crucified, to the Jews indeed a stumbling block, and to the Gentiles foolishness;
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the intellectual man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Hebrews 5:11
Concerning whom there is much word to us, and difficult to speak, since you are dull of hearing.