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Acts 17:32 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 32. 32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
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Role in This Section
Divides hearers between resurrection mockery and desire for another hearing.
Read It With
- Acts 17:22–17:34
Read Acts 17:32 with 17:22–17:34. In isolation, this contribution—divides hearers between resurrection mockery and desire for another hearing—can be mistaken for the scene's whole claim, detached from its speaker or narrator, or separated from its outcome. The complete unit establishes: Paul begins from Athenian religiosity and an altar dedicated to an unknown deity, proclaims the Creator who gives life and is near all peoples, critiques images, announces judgment through the risen man, and receives mixed responses.
Why It Needs Context
Divides hearers between resurrection mockery and desire for another hearing. Its responsible force depends on the full sequence, speaker, narrator framing, and outcome of Acts 17:22–17:34; it is connective evidence rather than a complete standalone teaching.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 17:22–17:34 — Paul proclaims the Creator and calls Athens to repentSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 17:22–17:34, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 17:22-17:34
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