Acts 17:19
They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?
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- Acts 17:22 : 22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
- Mark 1:27 : 27 They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!"
- John 13:34 : 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
- Acts 17:20 : 20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."
- Matt 10:18 : 18 Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
- Acts 24:24 : 24 But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
- Acts 25:22 : 22 Agrippa said to Festus, "I also would like to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," he said, "you shall hear him."
- Acts 26:1 : 1 Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
- 1 John 2:7-8 : 7 Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. 8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
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15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
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.
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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.
22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
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