Acts 17:19-20

17:19 So they took Paul and ¹  brought him to the Areopagus, ²  saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming? 17:20 For you are bringing some surprising things ³  to our ears, so we want to know what they ⁴  mean.”

Acts 17:32

17:32 Now when they heard about ⁵  the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, ⁶  but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”

¹ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Or “to the council of the Areopagus.” See also the term in v. 22.

³ tn BDAG 684 s.v. ξενίζω 2 translates the substantival participle ξενίζοντα (xenizonta) as “astonishing things Ac 17:20.”

⁴ tn Grk “these things”; but since the referent (“surprising things”) is so close, the repetition of “these things” sounds redundant in English, so the pronoun “they” was substituted in the translation.

⁵ tn The participle ἀκούσαντες (akousante") has been taken temporally.

⁶ tn L&N 33.408 has “some scoffed (at him) Ac 17:32” for ἐχλεύαζον (ecleuazon) here; the imperfect verb has been translated as an ingressive imperfect (“began to scoff”).