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Acts 17:20

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

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  1. Acts 17:18

    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.

  2. Acts 17:19

    And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

  3. Acts 17:21

    (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

  4. Acts 17:22

    Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

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