Acts 17:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions , I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

Acts 17:23 —

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Galatians 4:8-9
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. …
John 4:22
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
John 17:3
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
John 17:25
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-31)

We have here St. Paul’s sermon at Athens. Divers sermons we have had, which the apostles preached to the Jews, or such Gentiles as had an acquaintance with and veneration for the Old Testament, and were worshippers of the true and living God; and all they had to do with them was to open and allege that Jesus is the Christ; but here we have a sermon to heathens, that worshipped false gods, and were…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. as I passed by and beheld your devotions--rather, “the objects of your devotion,” referring, as is plain from the next words, to their works of art consecrated to religion. I found an altar ... To the--or, “an” unknown god--erected, probably, to commemorate some divine interposition, which they were unable to ascribe to any known deity. That there were such altars, Greek writers attest; and on…