Acts 20:1

Everyone in the mob went home, then Paul asked all the Christians to meet with him. He said to them, “I’m going to Macedonia country now. You have to always keep on believing in Jesus, and always be strong for him. I’m going now. Goodbye.” Then Paul left and went to Macedonia country.

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In The King James Version

And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.

In Context

2He visited all the Christians in the towns and cities in Macedonia, and he told them a lot of things to help them be strong for Jesus. Then he kept going and went to Akaya country. Another name for that country is Greece.

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Cross References

Acts 11:26He found Saul there, and he took him back to Antioch. They both stayed there for a year, and they met with the Christians in the church there, and they kept on teaching them. A lot of people in Antioch followed Jesus, and that was the place where people first used the name Christians for the people that followed Jesus Christ.

Acts 19:21After those things happened, Paul wanted to visit the Christians in Macedonia country and Akaya country again, and then he wanted to go on to Jerusalem after that. And he said, “After I go to Jerusalem, I have to go to Rome too.”

Acts 20:10Paul went down too, and he lay down and put his arms around the young man, and he pressed himself against him. Then he said, “Don’t worry, he is alive.” And that was true. That young man came alive again.

Acts 21:5The ship workers finished unloading the ship, and then it was time for it to leave, so we went back to the sea shore to get on the ship. All the Christian men, and their wives and kids, they all went with us to the sea shore. We all got down on our knees there on the sand, to show respect to God, and we prayed.

1 Corinthians 16:5But before I get to Corinth, I have to go through Macedonia country, and after that, I will visit you.

Matthew Henry on Acts 20:1

In this chapter we have, I. Paul's travels up and down about Macedonia, Greece, and Asia, and his coming at length to Troas, ver. 1-6 . II. A particular account of his spending one Lord's day at Troas, and his raising Eutychus to life there, ver. 7-12 . III. His progress, or circuit, for the visiting of the churches he had planted, in his way towards Jerusalem, where he designed to be by the next feast of pentecost, ver. 13-16 . IV. The farewell sermon he preached to the presbyters at Ephesus, now that he was… Read the whole commentary →

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