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23Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

Acts 20:23

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

  • And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

  • That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

  • Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.

  • Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Commentary

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

(vv. 17-35)

It should seem the ship Paul and his companions were embarked in for Jerusalem attended him on purpose, and staid or moved as he pleased; for when he came to Miletus, he went ashore, and tarried thee so long as to send for the elders of Ephesus to come to him thither; for if he had gone up to Ephesus, he could never have got away from them. These elders, or presbyters, some think, were those twelv…

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