Acts 17:20

For you are bringing some surprising things ¹  to our ears, so we want to know what they ²  mean.”

biblegateway Act 17:20

You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they mean."

biblegateway Act 17:20

"For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."

biblegateway Act 17:20

"You are saying some rather startling things, and we want to know what it’s all about."

biblegateway Act 17:20

Explain it so we can understand."

SABDAweb Act 17:20

For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.

bibleoremus Act 17:20

It sounds rather strange to us, so we would like to know what it means."

biblegateway Act 17:20

"For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean."

biblegateway Act 17:20

For you are bringing some surprising things ¹  to our ears, so we want to know what they ²  mean.”

¹ tn BDAG 684 s.v. ξενίζω 2 translates the substantival participle ξενίζοντα (xenizonta) as “astonishing things Ac 17:20.”

² 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.