Verse 20

for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

Referenced Verses

  • Hos 8:12 : 12 I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
  • 1 Pet 4:4 : 4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,
  • Matt 19:23-25 : 23 and Jesus said to his disciples, `Verily I say to you, that hardly shall a rich man enter into the reign of the heavens; 24 and again I say to you, it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to go, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.' 25 And his disciples having heard, were amazed exceedingly, saying, `Who, then, is able to be saved?'
  • Mark 9:10 : 10 and the thing they kept to themselves, questioning together what the rising out of the dead is.
  • Mark 10:24-26 : 24 And the disciples were astonished at his words, and Jesus again answering saith to them, `Children, how hard is it to those trusting on the riches to enter into the reign of God! 25 It is easier for a camel through the eye of the needle to enter, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.' 26 And they were astonished beyond measure, saying unto themselves, `And who is able to be saved?'
  • John 6:60 : 60 many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'
  • John 7:35-36 : 35 The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, `Whither is this one about to go that we shall not find him? -- to the dispersion of the Greeks is he about to go? and to teach the Greeks; 36 what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'
  • Acts 2:12 : 12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one unto another, `What would this wish to be?'
  • Acts 10:17 : 17 And as Peter was perplexed in himself what the vision that he saw might be, then, lo, the men who have been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,
  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,
  • 1 Cor 1:23 : 23 also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned;
  • Heb 5:11 : 11 concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,