When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;
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When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;
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When they desyred him to tary longer tyme with the he consented not
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Who desired him to tarie a longer time with them: but he would not consent,
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Passages linked to Acts 18:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Mark 1:37-38 They found him and told him, “Everyone is looking for you.” He said to them, “Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.”
- Acts 20:16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
- Acts 21:13-14 Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”
- 1 Corinthians 16:12 Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain The Apostles were carried about not by the will…
The Apostles were carried about not by the will of man, but by the leading of the holy Ghost.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 20 When they desired him to tarry longer time…
20 When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;
Ver. 20. He consented not] Though lovingly invited, and otherwise easy to be entreated. There was therefore something in it more than ordinary. Θεω επου, follow God whithersoever he leadeth thee, was a maxim among heathens. (Boeth. Consol.) Magnus est animus qui se Deo tradidit, saith Seneca (Epist. cvii.); that is a brave spirit that hath given up itself to God; and that is a base degenerate spirit which stands off; et Deum mavult emendare, quam se, and had rather find fault with God than with himself.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They desired; that is, Aquila and Priscilla, whom Paul…
They desired; that is, Aquila and Priscilla, whom Paul would not yield unto.
He consented not; by God’s wonderful providence, which overrules all our inclinations; Paul having greater things to do and suffer for the glory of God elsewhere.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when he had landed at Caesarea,.... This was…
And when he had landed at Caesarea,.... This was Caesarea Stratonis, formerly called Strato's tower: it would have been nearest for the apostle to have landed at Joppa, in order to go to Jerusalem, but that haven was a dangerous one; this was the safest, and which therefore Herod had repaired at a vast expense, and in honour of Caesar had called it by this name: of the port at Caesarea, and what a convenient and commodious one, as it was made by Herod, Josephus (i) gives a particular account, and who often calls this place Caesarea, "Caesarea by the sea" (k); and in other Jewish (l) writings mention is made of this place as a sea port, and of , "the shore of the sea of Caesarea": Josephus (m) sometimes calls it the port Sebastus, or Augustus, it being, as before observed, made by Herod, and so called in honour of Augustus Caesar; and in another place (n), Sebastus the port of Caesarea: according to Jerom (o), or a writer under his name, this was neither Caesarea Philippi, which indeed it could not be, that being an inland town; nor Caesarea formerly called Strato's tower, but a third Caesarea, the metropolis of Cappadocia: in which he must be mistaken, seeing that was no sea port, and the apostle could not be said to land there; nor did it lie in the way to Jerusalem from Ephesus; but this city was in Phenice, and lay between Joppa and Dora; which cities were maritime ones, but very disagreeable havens, because of the vehement strong winds from Africa: which rolling up the sand out of the sea upon the shore, would not admit of a quiet station (p); wherefore the apostle chose to land here, and not at either of the said ports;
and gone up; not to Caesarea, but to Jerusalem, from thence, which lay higher; and going to and from these places, is signified by a going up and down, Act 9:30. Moreover, the apostle had told the Ephesians, that he must go and keep the feast in Jerusalem, as he undoubtedly did: and yet if this does not refer to his going up thither, it will not be easy to observe that he went thither at all before his return to Ephesus; and besides, to suppose him to go from Caesarea to Antioch, was all one as to go back to Ephesus; and so to go, as one observes, by the same place to Jerusalem, into which he promised, in his return from Jerusalem, to come again, if God would:
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and saluted the church; at Jerusalem, the mother church:
he went down to Antioch; in Syria, from whence he first set out.
(i) Antiqu. l. 15. c. 9. sect. 6. & de Bello Jud. l. 1. c. 21. sect. 5, 6, 7. (k) Ib. de Bello l. 1. c. 3. sect. 5. & l. 3. c. 8. sect. 1. & l. 7. c. 1. sect. 3. c. 2. sect. 1. (l) Midrash Kohelet, fol. 71. 4. & 82. 2. (m) Antiqu. l. 17. c. 5. sect. 1. (n) De Bello Jud. l. 1. c. 31. sect. 3. (o) De locis Hebraicis, fol. 96. A. (p) Joseph. Antiqu. l. 15. c. 9. sect. 6.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain when they desired him to tarry--The Jews seldom rose…
when they desired him to tarry--The Jews seldom rose against the Gospel till the successful preaching of it stirred them up, and there was no time for that here.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 20. Desired him to tarry—The vessel, though stopping at…
20. Desired him to tarry—The vessel, though stopping at Ephesus, seems bound for Cesarea. Paul’s first preaching at Ephesus, as at Corinth, seems to have won the Jews. In both places the brief peace was succeeded by violent war. As cultivators of the ground for a future Church, however, Paul left Aquila and Priscilla there, (Act_18:19.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. And when they desired (asked) him to tarry…
20. And when they desired (asked) him to tarry a longer time with them] The oldest texts omit the last two words. The verb is one most frequently rendered “to ask.” We need not suppose that more impression had been produced on this occasion than made the Jews willing to give him a patient hearing.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (20) When they desired him to tarry longer time…
(20) When they desired him to tarry longer time with them.—This was, obviously, a hopeful sign, the earnest of the fruitful labours that followed. Nowhere, among the churches that he founded, does St. Paul seem to have found so great a receptivity for spiritual truth. While he looked on the Corinthians as being children requiring to be fed with milk (1Co_3:2), he saw in the Ephesians those to whom he did not shun to declare “the whole counsel of God” (Act_20:27), to whom he could, at a later date, appeal as able to measure his knowledge of the mystery of the gospel (Eph_3:4).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And when they asked for when they desired, A.V.;…
And when they asked for when they desired, A.V.; abide a for tarry, A.V.; time for time with them, A.V. He consented not; oujk ejpeneusen, only here in the New Testament, but found in Pro_26:20; RAPC 2Macc 4:10, etc., and frequently in medical writers; literally, to bend the head forward by the proper muscles (Hobart).
Zeal without knowledge.
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And he began to speak, etc. The true knowledge is not learning, not even knowledge of the Scriptures as a written Word, but knowledge of the way of God. Priscilla and Aquila may know more, in this sense of knowledge, than Apollos. Spiritual things are spiritually discerned.
I THOSE WHO PREACH AND TEACH SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR IT.
1. Much harm is done by zeal without true knowledge.
2. Progress cannot be rapid where knowledge is imperfect.
3. No amount of fervor in the spirit should be allowed to supersede a careful knowledge of the truth.
II THE WAY OF GOD IS NOT THE WAY OF JON THE BAPTIST, BUT THE WAY OF CHRIST.
1. Many things about Jesus may be known, and still the saving truth of spiritual life in him may be unknown.
2. Repentance preparatory to faith, not instead of it.
3. The way of God in Christ is not a reformed Judaism, but an entirely new method of religion; spiritual, not formal; by the law of love, not by the law of works. New wine in new bottles. Defective views of the gospel still prevalent. Morality substituted for faith, ritualism for spiritual religion. The way of God is the way of a new creation. R.
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William B. Godbey 1900 · Public Domain 20. He must expedite and see the churches in…
20. He must expedite and see the churches in different countries again,
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain See notes on verse 19
See notes on verse 19
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Here the words "they" and "them" refer to the Jews in Ephesus.
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taking his leave of them
"saying good-bye to them"
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will of God
Ephesus
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