Acts 20:1
And after the tumult was ceased, Paul calling to him the disciples, and exhorting them, took his leave, and set forward to go into Macedonia.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Postquam autem cessavit tumultus, vocatis Paulus discipulis, et exhortatus eos, valedixit, et profectus est ut iret in Macedoniam.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- Μετὰ δὲ τὸ παύσασθαι τὸν θόρυβον μεταπεμψάμενος ὁ Παῦλος τοὺς μαθητὰς καὶ παρακαλέσας, ἀσπασάμενος ἐξῆλθεν πορεύεσθαι εἰς Μακεδονίαν.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XLIII on Acts xx. 1
Acts XX. 1 “And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.”
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XLIII on Acts xx. 1
(Recapitulation.) “And having embraced them,” it says, “he departed for to go into Macedonia.” ( v. 1 .) By this again he refreshed them ( ἀνεκτήσατο ), giving them much consolation. “And having exhorted” the Macedonians, “with much discourse, he came into Greece.” ( v. 2 .) Observe how we everywhere find him accomplishing all by means of preaching, not by miracles. “And we, sailed,” etc. The writer constantly shows him to us as hasting to get to Syria; and the reason of it was the Church, and Jerusalem, but still he restrained his desire, so as to set all right in those parts also. And yet Troas is not a large place: why then do they pass seven days in it? Perhaps it was large as regarded the number of believers. And after he had passed seven days there, on the following day he spent the night in teaching: so hard did he find it to tear himself away from them, and they from him. …