Acts 20:3
After he had spent three months there and just as he was about to sail to Syria, it was discovered that the Jews were plotting against him. So he decided to return through Macedonia.
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Proverbs 1:11They may tell you, “Come with us. Let's go and hide, ready to kill someone. Let's ambush someone for fun!
Acts 9:23Some time later the Jews plotted together to kill him,
Acts 18:18Paul stayed on for a while. Then he left the believers and sailed for Syria, taking Priscilla and Aquila along with him. He had his head shaved while in Cenchrae, because he had taken a vow.
Acts 20:19I served the Lord in humility and in tears. I put up with the troubles and stress caused by the plots of the Jews.
Acts 23:12Next day some Jews plotted together, and they took an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
2 Corinthians 1:15Because I was so sure of your confidence in me I planned to come and visit you first. That way you could have benefited twice,
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 →