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Acts 17:19 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about? "

Acts 17:19

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17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

19 They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?

20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

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Acts 17:1

"Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue."

Acts 17:2

"Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,"

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"explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”"

Acts 17:4

"Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women."

Acts 17:5

"But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people."

Acts 17:6

"When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,"

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