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Acts 20:3

Acts 20:3
And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And there abode three months,.... In Greece:

and when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria; from some part of Greece, in order to go to Jerusalem; which the Jews in the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And there abode - Why he remained here is unknown. It is probable that while in Greece he wrote the Epistle to the Romans. Compare Rom 15:25-27. And when the Jews laid wait for him - There was a…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Abode three months - Partly, as we may suppose, at Corinth, at Athens, and in Achaia; from which place he is supposed to have sent his epistle to the Romans, because he continued longer here than at…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Acts 20:1-6

These travels of Paul which are thus briefly related, if all in them had been recorded that was memorable and worthy to be written in letters of gold, the world would not contain the books that would…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

and there abode three months More literally, with Rev. Ver., "and when he had spent three months there," connecting it, as the Greek does, with what follows.

and when the Jews laid wait for him The…