Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 20:31
See notes on verse 28
See notes on verse 28
Verse 31. _THEREFORE WATCH, AND REMEMBER_] The only way to abide in the truth is to _watch_ against evil, and for good; and to _keep_ _in mind_ the heavenly doctrines originally received. _Unwatchfuln...
THEREFORE WATCH - Matthew 24:42. In view of the dangers which beset yourselves Acts 20:28, the danger from people not connected with the church Acts 20:29, and the danger which will arise from the lov...
CHAPTER 20 __ 1. Paul in Macedonia (Acts 20:1). 2. His abode in Greece, the visit to Troas and what transpired there (Acts 20:3). 3. The journey from Troas to Miletus (Acts 20:13). 4. The farewell...
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE ELDERS OF EPHESUS AT MILETUS. See Ramsay, art. Miletus in HDB, as to the difficulties of the journey at that period from Miletus to Ephesus; one had to sail to Priene and make fro...
SETTING OUT FOR JERUSALEM (Acts 20:1-6)...
From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus and summoned the elders of the church. When they were with him he said to them, "You yourselves know how, from the first day I came into Asia, I spent all the time,...
WATCH. Compare 1 Peter 5:8. AND REMEMBER. remembering. Greek. _mnemoneuo._ Always translated "remember", save Hebrews 11:15; Hebrews 11:22. BY THE SPACE OF THREE YEARS. Greek. _trietia._ Only here
_Therefore watch_ The sort of watching implied is that unsleeping alertness which can never be taken by surprise. _and remember, that by the space of three years_ As the verb here is a participial for...
ΔΙῸ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΕΙ͂ΤΕ, _therefore watch_. And the sort of watching indicated is that unsleeping alertness which can never be taken by surprise. ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΟΝΤΕΣ Κ.Τ.Λ., _remembering that by the space of three...
PAUL SENDS FOR THE ELDERS FROM EPHESUS, GIVES THEM HIS PARTING CHARGE, AND LEAVES MILETUS...
_PAUL VISITED WITH THE ELDERS FROM EPHESUS ACTS 20:17-38:_ Paul called for the Elders from the church at Ephesus to meet with him at Miletus. He reminded them that he had never tried to obtain the app...
ΓΡΗΓΟΡΕΊΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΈΩ (G1127) бодрствовать, сторожить, быть начеку. _Praes. imper._ указывает на постоянную бдительность, ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. (conymcme.)_ от ΜΝΗΜΟΝ...
DISCOURSE: 1801 WATCHFULNESS RECOMMENDED Acts 20:31. _Therefore watch, and remember, that, by the space of three years, I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears_. IT is, for the most p...
TO WARN EVERY ONE NIGHT AND DAY WITH TEARS.— If this expression be taken in any other than a general sense for _incessantly,_ or _without intermission,_ it may probably intimate that the Christians so...
IN MILETUS. Acts 20:16-38. a. Past Ephesus to Miletus. Acts 20:16-17. 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...
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. THEREFORE WATCH. This great duty of pastors applies to every age of the Chu...
21 Repentance had its place in Paul's preaching while he was proclaiming the kingdom. It was associated with pardon. Henceforth he no longer preaches these, but justification and conciliation by faith...
ST PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE ELDERS OF EPHESUS. He reminds them of his ministry among them (Acts 20:18). And now that the Spirit draws him to Jerusalem, to face the unknown future, he entrusts the Ephesian...
THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONTINUED) 1-6. Paul in Macedonia and Greece. St. Paul waited at Ephesus until the return of Timothy and Erastus, and left Ephesus shortly after Pentecost, 55 a.d. (1 Corinth...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 20 PAUL TRAVELS THROUGH MACEDONIA AND GREECE, 20:1-6 V1 After the *riot, Paul sent for the *believers and he encouraged them. Then he said good...
THEREFORE WATCH... — The word was, as it were, an echo from our Lord’s teaching (Matthew 24:42; Matthew 25:13, _et al_.), which could hardly have been unknown to St. Paul. Here, however, it receives a...
γρηγ.: the pastoral metaphor continued; verb used four times by St. Paul, and it may well have passed into familiar use in the early Church by the solemn injunction of our Lord on the Mount of Olives...
COMMENDED TO GOD Acts 20:28 Notice the change of the Revised Version in Acts 20:28. The elder, whether presbyter or bishop, is not put _over_ the flock; he is _in_ it like the rest, needing redemptio...
Restful and mastered by Christ, Paul was yet restless and resistless in devotion to the enterprise of his Lord. These facts are evident throughout this chapter. We follow him in rapid movements, alway...
Paul's Charge to the Ephesian Elders Because he did not anticipate seeing them again, the apostle charged those elders, who had been selected on the basis of the qualifications listed by the Holy Spir...
_“Watch, therefore, remembering that three years, night and day, I ceased not warning each one of you with tears.”_ Paul was a weeping prophet, his tears giving a force to the truth as nothing else co...
And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church. (18) And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
− 31._For which cause, watch. _Paul doth again exhort them unto diligence by his own example, though he doth join therewithal fear of danger, as if he should say that they have need of great attention...
But let us return to the history of Paul. After the uproar has ceased he sends for the disciples, embraces them, and departs for Macedonia; he visits that whole country, and comes into Greece. The beg...
THEREFORE WATCH,.... Meaning both over themselves, and the flock; to prevent, if possible, false teachers entering in, and to nip the buds of heresy and schism, as soon as they appear, and to preserve...
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. Ver. 31. _Night and day with tears_] Good men weep easily, saith the Greek poe...
_Therefore watch_ With all diligence and care; take heed yourselves, and warn others to take heed; _and remember, that by the space of three years_, (for so long had he been preaching at Ephesus and t...
WARN EVERY ONE; of their danger, and point out the way to escape it....
The special charge to the elders:...
THEREFORE WATCH AND REMEMBER THAT BY THE SPACE OF THREE YEARS I CEASED NOT TO WARN EVERY ONE NIGHT AND DAY WITH TEARS. With the example of the apostle before them, and with his challenge ringing in th...
Finally Paul follows Timothy and Erastus to Macedonia, leaving a field of labor that had been most fruitful. How long he spent in Philippi, Thessalonica and Berea we are not told, but he gave them muc...
THEREFORE WATCH, AND REMEMBER THAT FOR THREE YEARS I DID NOT CEASE TO WARN EVERYONE NIGHT AND DAY WITH TEARS. 1. Watch. Be alert. Always on guard. Diligent. Never let your guard down. 2. Paul did no...
"Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years. ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears"Watch ye": Because these things will happen. "Remembering that by the space...
28-38 If the Holy Ghost has made ministers overseers of the flock, that is, shepherds, they must be true to their trust. Let them consider their Master's concern for the flock committed to their char...
OLBGrk; WATCH; take heed yourselves, and warn others to take heed. BY THE SPACE OF THREE YEARS; from St. Paul's first coming to Ephesus it was three years current, and now almost complete, ACTS 19:8,1...
Acts 20:31 Therefore G1352 watch G1127 (G5720) remember G3421 (G5723) that G3754 years G5148 not G3756 cease...
“For which reason watch you, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.” He reminds them how while he was with them over the ‘three year'...
PAUL'S ADDRESS TO THE ELDERS OF THE EPHESIAN CHURCH (20:17-38)....
Acts 20:31. THEREFORE WATCH, AND REMEMBER, THAT BY THE SPACE OF THREE YEARS I CEASED NOT TO WARN EVERY ONE NIGHT AND DAY WITH TEARS. We have the statement in Acts 19:8-10 that Paul disputed in the Eph...
_St. Paul's Farewell Address to the Elders of the Church at Ephesus,_ 18-38. In this short epitome of the discourse of the apostle on the occasion of his bidding farewell to his old Ephesian friends a...
WHEREFORE WATCH YE (διο γρηγορειτε). Paul has concluded his defence of himself and his warning. Now he exhorts on the basis of it (διο) because of which thing. The very command of Jesus concerning...
CONTENTS: Paul goes to Macedonia and Greece. His visits at Troas, Miletus. Paul's conference with the Ephesian elders. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Paul, Sopater, Aristarchus, Secundus, Gaius, Tim...
Acts 20:4. _There accompanied him Sopater of Berea,_ the son of Pyrrhus, according to the Vulgate. He is called by Paul, Sosipater. Romans 16:21. _Aristarchus,_ who accompanied him to Rome, and _Secun...
KEEP WATCH. This is said especially to elders [church leaders]. Compare Hebrews 13:17. OVER YOURSELVES. Their first responsibility was over themselves, since they could not fulfill their mission unles...
_Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock._ TAKE HEED I. To yourselves. To your-- 1. Doctrine. 2. Walk. II. To the flock. To its-- 1. Divine dignity. 2. Human infirmity. III. T...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 20:17 Paul’s Miletus address is the only example in Acts 1:1 of a major speech to Christians. Of all Paul’s speeches in Ac
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 20:31 THREE YEARS included the “three months” and the “two years” in Ephesus that Luke mentioned earlier (see Acts 19:8,...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 20:17. MILETUS.—Thirty-six miles south of Ephesus, and on the south-west of the Latmian Gulf. “Now a desolation: then an emporium of trade with four ports or docks crowded wit...
EXPOSITION ACTS 20:1 _Having sent for_ …_ and exhorted _for _called unto him, _A.V. and T.R.; _took leave of them, and departed _for _and embraced them, and departed, _A.V. DEPARTED FOR TO GO INTO MA...
Last week we left Paul in Ephesus, in the midst of a near riot in town, as Demetrius the silversmith got together his companions in trade and pointed out how the preaching of Paul was about to put the...
1 Corinthians 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:14;...
Watch [γ ρ η γ ο ρ ε ι τ ε]. See on Mark 8:35. To warn [ν ο υ θ ε τ ω ν]. From nouv, the mind, and tiqhmi, to put. Lit., to put in mind; admonish (so Rev., better than warn). "It's fundamental idea i...
I ceased not to warn every one night and day — This was watching indeed! Who copies after this example?...