For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Paul, though a scholar, made no business of their philosophy, he had learned to call it vain and stood above it. His work was to correct their disorders in religion, to turn them from idols and Satan's service to the true God in Christ. A city wholly given to idolatry needed not curious questions but correction.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 17:16-21
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears,.... Strange doctrines and strange deities, such as they had never heard of before: we would know therefore what these things mean; they desire he would explain these things to them, and let them know the rise, and ground, and nature, and end, and design of them.
Verse 20. Certain strange things. Literally, something pertaining to a foreign country or people. Here it means something unusual, remarkable, to which we are not accustomed to hear from their philosophers and religious teachers. What these things mean. We would understand more clearly what is affirmed respecting Jesus and the resurrection. (a) "certain strange"