Acts 17:20
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
KJV
ξενίζοντα γάρ τινα εἰσφέρεις εἰς τὰς ἀκοὰς ἡμῶν· βουλόμεθα οὖν γνῶναι τίνα θέλει ταῦτα εἶναι.
Greek NT
nova enim quædam infers auribus nostris : volumus ergo scire quidnam velint hæc esse.
Vulgate
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
ASV
For thou bringest in certain new things to our ears. We would know therefore what these things mean.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
βούλομαι
boulomai
verb · 36×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
γινώσκω
ginosko
verb · 222×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εἰσφέρω
eisphero
verb · 8×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
ξενίζω
xenizo
verb · 10×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἀκοή
akoe
noun · 24×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: τίνα θέλει | WH/Treg/NIV: τίνα θέλει | RP: τί ἂν θέλοι
- τίνα θέλει — SBLGNT
- τίνα θέλει — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- τί ἂν θέλοι — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:18 — For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
- 1Cor 1:23 — But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
- 1Cor 2:14 — But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- 1Pet 4:4 — Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
- Acts 2:12 — And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
- Hos 8:12 — I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.