These men, going ahead, waited for us at Troas.
1. Notice the "us" - This shows that Luke is also part of this company.
2. There is a "we" in verse 6 that shows while others traveled ahead to meet Paul, Luke stayed with Paul to Troas.
Verse Acts 20:5. _TARRIED FOR US AT TROAS._] See the preceding verse. _Troas_ was a small town in Phrygia Minor, in the province called the _Troad_: see Acts 16:8....
THESE GOING BEFORE - Going before Paul and Luke. Dr. Doddridge supposes that only Tychicus and Trophimus went before the others. Perhaps the Greek most naturally demands this interpretation. TARRIED F...
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...
TO GREECE; RETURN TO TROAS. The journey sketched in Acts 19:21; 1 Corinthians 16:5, is entered on; for what happened at Troas and in Macedonia on the way _cf._ 2 Corinthians 2:12 f.,...
SETTING OUT FOR JERUSALEM (Acts 20:1-6)...
After the disturbance had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples. He spoke words of encouragement to them and bade them farewell and departed to go to Macedonia. When he had gone through those parts and...
TARRIED. were waiting. AT. in. Greek. _en_. App-104. TROAS. Compare Acts 16:8; 2 Corinthians 2:12....
_These going before tarried for us at Troas_ Better (with _Rev. Ver._), BUT THESE HAD GONE BEFORE AND WERE WAITING FOR US, &c. What the writer wants to point out is that these men before-mentioned did...
ΟὟΤΟΙ ΔῈ ΠΡΟΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ Κ.Τ.Λ., _but these had gone before and were waiting for us at Troas_. What the writer wants to point out is that these men before-mentioned did not stop like St Paul at Philippi,...
Acts 20:1-6. PAUL JOURNEYS THROUGH MACEDONIA AND GREECE, AND RETURNS AS FAR AS TROAS...
_PAUL WENT THROUGH MACEDONIA AND GREECE ACTS 20:1-6:_ When the uproar that had been caused by Demetrius at Ephesus ceased Paul called for the Christians at Ephesus. He embraced them, comforted them, a...
ΠΡΟΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΠΡΟΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4281) предшествовать, идти впереди, ΈΜΕΝΟΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΜΈΝΩ (G3306) оставаться, ждать. Форма 1 _pers. pl._ ("мы") появляется снова....
AT CORINTH IN GREECE. Acts 20:3-5. Acts 20:3 And when he had spent three months there, and a plot was laid against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return thro...
See notes on verse 4...
These going before tarried for us at Troas. THESE GOING BEFORE (PERHAPS TO ANNOUNCE AND PREPARE FOR THE APOSTLE'S COMING) TARRIED FOR US AT TROAS. It will be observed, from the resumption of the...
38 After showing them that the men they had led to the theater were not guilty of any overt act against the temple or goddess he reminds them that there are legal means of redress for any wrong which...
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...
THESE GOING BEFORE TARRIED FOR US AT TROAS. — Two motives may be assigned for this arrangement — (1) It enabled St. Paul to keep the Passover with the church at Philippi, starting “after the days of u...
προελθόντες, see critical note. If we read προσελ. render as in R.V. (margin), “these came, and were waiting for us at Troas,” _cf._ Ramsay, _St. Paul_, p. 287, and Rendall, _in loco._ ἡμᾶς : the intr...
A MESSENGER OF TRUTH AND LIFE Acts 20:1 The Second Epistle to the Corinthians should be read with the introductory verses of this chapter, as it reveals the Apostle's inner mind at this time. He seem...
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...
Travelling from Ephesus to Troas After encouraging the Ephesian brethren, Paul went on to Macedonia. He also built up the churches there before he went on to Greece. His work there continued for some...
Meanwhile his evangelistic comrades, Sopater of Asia, Aristarchus and Secundus, Gaius and Timothy, Tychicus and Trophinius, embarking, sail directly to Asia, landing at Troas, whither Paul and Luke, l...
And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia. (2) And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhort...
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...
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...
THESE GOING BEFORE,.... The apostle into Asia, all but Sopater, who accompanied him: TARRIED FOR US AT TROAS; a city in Asia Minor; see Acts 16:8 whither they went before hand a nearer way, to provid...
These going before tarried for us at Troas. Ver. 5. _Tarried for us at Troas_] _See Trapp on "_ Act 16:8 _"_...
_And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea_, &c. The several persons mentioned in this verse are thought by some to have been joined with Paul as _messengers of the churches_, in carrying t...
FOR US; this language shows that Luke, the author of this book, was one of the company. TROAS; chap Acts 16:8....
THESE GOING BEFORE TARRIED FOR US AT TROAS. Paul had intended to make a trip to Macedonia and Achaia, chap, 19:21. That the riot in the city materially hastened his departure, or that the work of the...
THE JOURNEY TO MACEDONIA AND BACK TO MILETUS. The second visit to Macedonia and Greece:...
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...
"But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas"But these had gone before": Evidently, these accompanying messengers went ahead of Paul to Troas. "Waiting for us": The word us indicates t...
1-6 Tumults or opposition may constrain a Christian to remove from his station or alter his purpose, but his work and his pleasure will be the same, wherever he goes. Paul thought it worth while to be...
US; whereby it appears, that St. Luke was one of them that accompanied St. Paul, though neither here nor elsewhere doth he express his own name. TROAS; either the city of Troy, or the country thereabo...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III And again does he say, "But we sailed from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came to Troas, where we abode seven days."[234]...
Acts 20:5 men G3778 ahead G4281 (G5631) waited G3306 (G5707) us G2248 at G1722 Troas G5174 Troas -...
‘But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas.' These (apart possibly from Sopater) had been sent ahead and were waiting at Troas, quite probably having with them some of the Collectio...
THE JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM (20:3-21:16). As we read this section of Acts some of it may seem a little pointless and repetitive. But we must recognise in it what Luke is doing. One purpose that he has in...
PAUL'S VISITS TO MACEDONIA AND GREECE AND SEVEN DAYS IN TROAS (20:1-6). It is indicative of Luke's concentration on the new direction in which events have turned, and his purpose in writing what follo...
Acts 20:5. THESE, GOING BEFORE, TARRIED FOR US AT TROAS. Here the language of the narrative (see remarks on the preceding verse) suddenly changes from the third person to the first. Briefly to recapit...
WERE WAITING FOR US IN TROAS (εμενον ημας εν Τροιαδ). Here again we have "us" for the first time since chapter 16 where Paul was with Luke in Philippi. Had Luke remained all this time in Philippi?...
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...
AFTER THE UPROAR DIED DOWN. Paul had already decided to go through Macedonia and Greece (Acts 19:21), but planned to stay in Ephesus until after Pentecost (1 Corinthians 16:8). This time had come (abo...
_And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for Macedonia._ READING BETWEEN THE LINES There does not seem to be much in this section of the...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 20:5 THESE WENT ON AHEAD. This group may have included all the representatives or just the two Asians (v. Acts 20:4). They perhaps arranged for the final voyage from...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 20:1. AFTER THE UPROAR WAS CEASED.—Soon after, but not necessarily because of the uproar. The best authorities insert _and exhorted_, παρακαλέσας, before AND EMBRACED or took l...
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...
2 Corinthians 2:12; 2 Timothy 4:13; Acts 16:11; Acts 16:8...
Us. The first person resumed, indicating that Luke had joined Paul....