Acts 20:2

And going through those parts, and encouraging them with many words, he came to Greece

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,

In Context

1Now after the disturbance had ceased, Paul, summoning the disciples and greeting them, went away to go to Macedonia.

3and spent three months there. And as a plot by the Jews developed against him, as he was to put to sea for Syria, a decision came about to return through Macedonia.

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Cross References

Acts 14:22strengthening the souls of the disciples, urging them to continue in the faith, saying, “Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.”

Acts 16:12and from there to Philippi, which is chief of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were spending some days in that very city.

Acts 17:10Then the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away during the night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

Acts 20:11And going up and breaking bread and eating, and talking for a considerable time, until daybreak, thus he departed.

1 Thessalonians 2:3For our exhortation was not from error nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit.

Matthew Henry on Acts 20:2-7

Paul's Departure from Ephesus; Paul's Removal to Troas. 1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia. 2 And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece, 3 And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia. 4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians,… Read the whole commentary →

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