Acts 16:6
When they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
5Therefore, the churches were established in the faith, and they increased in number daily.
7and had come to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia; and the Spirit did not permit them.
Cross References
Acts 2:9Parthians and Modes and Elamites, and we who dwell in Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
Acts 11:12And the Spirit commanded me to go with them without hesitation. And these six brethren accompanied me. And we entered the man’s house:
Acts 16:7and had come to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia; and the Spirit did not permit them.
Acts 19:10This continued for two years; so that all that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.
Acts 20:4And Sopater of Berea, and Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy and Tychicus and Trophimus, who were Asiatics, accompanied him to Asia.
Matthew Henry on Acts 16:2-6
Paul's Adoption of Timothy. 1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: 2 Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. 3 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek. 4 And as they went through the cities, they delivered… Read the whole commentary →