16For 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.
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But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-16)Paul is hastening towards Jerusalem, but strives to do all the good he can by the way, os en parodo , “as it were by the by.” He had called at Troas, and done good there; and now he makes a sort of coasting voyage, the merchants would call it a trading voyage, going from place to place, and no doubt endeavouring to make every place he came to the better for him, as every good man should do. I. He…
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