8But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
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And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-9)In this passage the apostle notifies and explains his purpose of visiting them, concerning which, observe, 1. His purpose: he intended to pass out of Asia, where he now was ( vide 1 Cor. 16:8 , 19 ) and to go through Macedonia into Achaia, where Corinth was, and to stay some time with them, and perhaps the winter, 1 Cor. 16:5 , 6 . He had long laboured in this church, and done much good among them…
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