Acts 20:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

accompanied. were accompanying. This was their purpose, but they went before and waited at Troas (Acts 20:5). Greek. sunepomai. Only here.

into. as far as.

Sopater. Shortened form of Sosipater, which is found in Romans 16:21, but there is no connexion between the two persons. The texts add "son of Pyrrhus".

Aristarehus. See Acts 19:29.

Secundus. Only here.

Gaius. Not the same as in Acts 19:29.

Tychicus. See 1 Chronicles 4:7; 1 Chronicles 4:7; 2 Timothy 3:12; 2 Timothy 3:12. He was with Paul in his first and second imprisonments at Rome, and was twice sent by him to Ephesus, which was no doubt his native place, as it was that of Trophimus.

Trophimus. See Acts 21:29; 2 Timothy 4:20.

Acts 20:4

4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.