²⁰ For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.”

⁴ In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.

¹¹ of whom ^(A)we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become ^(B)dull of hearing.

^14 (A)But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

²³ but we preach Christ crucified, ^(A)to the Jews a ^[a]stumbling block and to the ^[b]Greeks ^(B)foolishness,

Christ the Power and Wisdom of God^(A)

¹⁸ For the ^[a]message of the cross is ^(B)foolishness to ^(C)those who are perishing, but to us ^(D)who are being saved it is the ^(E)power of God.

Summoned to Caesarea

¹⁷ Now while Peter ^[a]wondered within himself what this vision which he had seen meant, behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon’s house, and stood before the gate.

¹² So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “Whatever could this mean?”

³⁵ Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does He intend to go that we shall not find Him? Does He intend to go to ^(A)the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What is this thing that He said, ‘You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come’?”