Acts 20:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

abode three months. Literally having done three months. Compare Acts 15:33; Acts 18:23. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the species). App-6. The whole period covered by verses: Acts 20:1-3 is about nine months.

when, &c. Literally. plot (Greek. epiboule. See Acts 9:24) having been made against him by (Greek. hupo. App-104.) the Jews.

sail. Greek. anago. See note on Acts 13:13.

he purposed. Literally his purpose or judgment was. Greek. gnome. App-177.

Acts 20:3

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.