After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
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Gill's Exposition
Whom he called together,.... That is, the craftsmen; "all his co-artificers", as the Syriac version reads, all the chief of the trade, the masters of it, as he himself was:
with the workmen of like…
Barnes' Notes
After these things were ended - After the gospel was firmly established at Ephesus, so that his presence there was no longer necessary. Purposed in the spirit - Resolved in his mind. When he had…
Adam Clarke
Paul purposed in the spirit, etc. - Previously to this he appears to have concerted a journey to Macedonia, and a visit to Corinth, the capital of Achaia, where he seems to have spent a considerable…
I. Paul is here brought into some trouble at Ephesus, just when he is forecasting to go thence, and to cut out work for himself elsewhere. See here,
1. How he laid his purpose of going to other…
Cambridge Bible
St Paul's Plans for his Journey from Ephesus
21. After these things were ended The foundations of the Ephesian Church seemed fully laid, when sacrifices of such a kind had been made by the converts,…
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