Acts 17:20

Paul in Athens

19So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?20For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”

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Berean Standard Bible
For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
American Standard Version (1901)
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Bible in Basic English
For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
For thou bringest in certain new things to our ears. We would know therefore what these things mean.
Free Bible Version
We're hearing from you things that sound odd to us, so we'd like to know what they mean.”
Geneva Bible 1599
For thou bringest certaine strange thinges vnto our eares: we woulde knowe therefore, what these things meane.
King James (Authorized) Version
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Plain English Version
We are surprised when we hear some of the things you say, and we want to understand what you mean.”
Translation for Translators
You are teaching some things that startle us (exc), so we want to know what they mean.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
For you bring some strange things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know what these things mean.”
Noah Webster Bible
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears; we would know therefore what these things mean.
World English Bible
For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
Young's Literal Translation
for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'