12And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.
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From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. …
And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)We have here Paul and his company arrived at length at Caesarea, where he designed to make some stay, it being the place where the gospel was first preached to the Gentiles, and the Holy Ghost fell upon them , Acts 10:1 , 44 . Now here we are told, I. Who it was that entertained Paul and his company at Caesarea . He seldom had occasion to go to a public house, but, wherever he came, some friend or…
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