Acts 17:18 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁸ Then certain philosophers, both Epicureans and Stoics, encountered him. Some said, “What might this idea-scavenger want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

¹⁴ Upon coming to the disciples, He saw a large crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them.

⁵³ Well when He had said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge Him on vehemently and to cross-examine Him about many things,

² being upset because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

⁹ Then there arose some from what is called the Synagogue of the Freedmen (Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia), disputing with Stephen.

³¹ because He has appointed a day in which He will judge the inhabited world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” ³² Well when they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some started scoffing, while others said, “We will hear you again about this”.

²³ —that the Messiah would suffer; that as the first to rise from the dead He would proclaim light to both ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations.”

²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

⁹ For this very reason Christ both died and rose, and lived, so as to rule both dead and living. ¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? And you too, why do you look down on your brother? Because we will all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.

²⁰ Where is the wise one? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its ‘wisdom’ did not get to know God, it pleased God to save the believing ones through the ‘foolishness’ of what was preached—

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become ‘foolish’ so that he may become wise.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ while you are wise! We are weak but you are strong! You are esteemed, we are despised!

³ Because I transmitted to you at first that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

⁸ Be careful that no one captures you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world and not according to Christ.