Acts 18:21

But taking his leave and saying: I will return to you again, God willing, he departed from Ephesus.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

In Context

20And when they desired him that he would tarry a longer time, he consented not:

22And going down to Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and saluted the church: and so came down to Antioch.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:39And going a little further, he fell upon his face, praying and saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt.

Acts 15:29That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication: from which things keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well. From blood, and from things strangled... The use of these things, though of their own nature indifferent, was here prohibited, to bring the Jews more easily to admit of the society of the Gentiles; and to exercise the latter in obedience. But this prohibition was but temporary, and has long since ceased to oblige; more especially in the western churches.

Acts 20:16For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, lest he should be stayed any time in Asia. For he hasted, if it were possible for him, to keep the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.

Romans 1:10Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you.

1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.

2 Corinthians 13:11For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfect, take exhortation, be of one mind, have peace. And the God of grace and of love shall be with you.

Matthew Henry on Acts 18:19-24

Paul's Visit to Ephesus and Jerusalem. 18 And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow. 19 And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. 20 When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not; 21 But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast… Read the whole commentary →

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