34Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
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And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: …
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
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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