Acts 18:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;

Acts 18:20 —

Old words in this verse

tarry: — stay, wait.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 1:37-38
And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee. …
Acts 21:13-14
Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. …
Acts 20:16
For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
1 Corinthians 16:12
As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.

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Ephesus

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-23)

We have here Paul in motion, as we have had him at Corinth for some time at rest, but in both busy, very busy, in the service of Christ; if he sat still, if he went about, still it was to do good. Here is, I. Paul’s departure from Corinth, Acts 18:18. 1. He did not go away till some time after the trouble he met with there; from other places he had departed when the storm arose, but not from Corin…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. when they desired him to tarry--The Jews seldom rose against the Gospel till the successful preaching of it stirred them up, and there was no time for that here.