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20 For you are bringing some surprising things[a] to our ears, so we want to know what they[b] mean.”

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Footnotes

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

20 For you bring some (A)strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.”

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