Polarized Reactions to the Gospel
Acts 17:32
While in Athens, Paul preached about Jesus Christ to a curious audience (Acts 17:22-31). At the climactic point of his sermon, Paul asserted that God raised Jesus from the dead (17:31). This claim got a polarized reaction. As the NASB translates Acts 17:32, “Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, “We shall hear you again concerning this.” Beneath the English, Luke uses the tools of the Greek language to highlight these contrasting reactions to Paul’s message.
Luke uses two subtle Greek words, men and de, in his description of the responses. The NASB leaves the Greek men untranslated, because there is not an exact English equivalent. However, men is a significant word, because it is a connective which works with other words to correlate two clauses. In this case, men introduces one clause, “some began to sneer,” but also creates the expectation that a second related clause will follow.
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