Acts 20:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Acts 20:23 —

Old words in this verse

ghost: — spirit, breath of life.
abide: — stay, remain, live.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 9:16
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Acts 21:4
And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
1 Thessalonians 3:3
That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
Acts 21:33
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.
Acts 14:22
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.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Apostles Boldness Bravery Caution Character Consistency Constancy

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…

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

(vv. 23)

22-23. And now, behold, I--“I” is emphatic here. bound in the spirit--compare Ac 19:21. This internal pressure, unattended with any knowledge of “what was to befall him there,” was the result of that higher guidance which shaped all his movements.