Acts 20:1

After the people at Ephesus had stopped rioting, Paul summoned the believers. He encouraged them to continue to trust in the Lord Jesus. Soon after that, he told them goodbye and left to go to Macedonia province.

Translation for Translators

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

2After he arrived there, he visited each town where there were believers, and encouraged them. Then he arrived in Greece province, which is also called Achaia.

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Cross References

Genesis 48:10Jacob was almost blind because he was very old. He could not recognize the boys. So Joseph brought his sons close to his father, and Jacob kissed them and hugged them.

Acts 11:26After he found him, Barnabas brought him back to Antioch to help teach the believers. So during a whole year Barnabas and Saul met regularly with the congregation there and taught many of them about Jesus. It was at Antioch that the believers were first called Christians { that people first called the believers Christians}.

Acts 19:21After those things had happened, Paul decided that he wanted to go to Jerusalem, but he decided that first he would visit the believers in Macedonia and Achaia provinces again. Paul said, “After I have been to Jerusalem, I must also go to Rome.”

Acts 20:10Paul also went down. He lay down and stretched out on top of the young man and put his arms around him. Then he said to the people who were standing around, “Do not worry, he is alive again now!”

Acts 21:5But when it was time for the ship to leave again, we prepared to continue going to Jerusalem. When we left Tyre, all the believers, including their wives and children, went with us to the edge of the sea. We all knelt down there on the sand/shore and prayed.

1 Corinthians 16:5Now I plan to travel through Macedonia province. I plan to come to visit you, but I want to go through Macedonia first.

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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