Acts 20:3
and, spending three months, when a plot was laid against him by the Jews, as he was about to sail to Syria, he determined to turn back through Macedonia.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2Passing through those parts, however, and exhorting them with much discourse, he came into Greece;
Cross References
Proverbs 1:11If they say—Come with us,—Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly innocent;
Acts 9:23Now, when a considerable number of days were being fulfilled, the Jews took counsel together to kill him;
Acts 18:18Paul, however, still further abiding a good many days with the brethren, bidding them adieu, set sail for Syria; and, with him, Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
Acts 20:19doing service unto the Lord, with all humility and tears, and temptations which befell me through the plots of the Jews:
Acts 23:12And, when it became day, the Jews, forming a conspiracy, bound themselves under a curse, saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had slain Paul.
2 Corinthians 1:15And, in this confidence, I purposed, before, to come unto you,—in order that, a second joy, ye might have,—
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 →