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Acts 17:19

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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?

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Acts 17:19 in other translations

And they took hold of him, and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by thee?

Acts 17:19 · American Standard Version

Acts 17:19 in context

  1. 17So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
  2. 18Some 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.
  3. 19They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
  4. 20For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
  5. 21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.