Acts 20:17

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

Ver. 17. From Miletus] A city of Asia, lower than Ephesus.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He sent to Ephesus - Perhaps a distance of twenty or thirty miles. The elders of the church - Who had been appointed while he was there to ta...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And from (c) Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church. (c) According as the situation of these places is set forth, the dista...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Paul's Speech to the Elders of Ephesus at Miletus. See Ramsay, art. Miletus in HDB, as to the difficulties of the journey at that period from Milet...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Miletus . A city of great importance, as its remains show. sent . having sent. Greek. pempo. App-174. Ephesus . The time taken in summoning th...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1798 ST. PAUL’S APPEAL TO THE ELDERS OF EPHESUS Acts 20:17-21 . And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the chu...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church. He sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the Church - These are called...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church. And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the c...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Third Missionary Journey (continued) 1-6. Paul in Macedonia and Greece. St. Paul waited at Ephesus until the return of Timothy and Erastus, and le...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church. — We find, from Acts 20:28 , that they were known also as episcopi (“b...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Acts 20:7 Chapter 16 ST. PAUL AND THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY. Acts 20:1 ; Acts 20:7 ; Acts 20:17-19 ; Acts 20:28 THE period of St. Paul's c...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Parting Message Acts 20:13-27 The vessel had to stop at Miletus and Paul sent word to the Ephesian elders, urging them to come and see him. H...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Restful and mastered by Christ, Paul was yet restless and resistless in devotion to the enterprise of his Lord. These facts are evident throughout th...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church. (18) And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the f...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus ,.... Which is said, by some, to be about four hundred furlongs from Miletus, and, by others, ten German miles....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus Though Paul's concern to be at Jerusalem by the feast of pentecost, prevented his going in person to visit the...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Finally Paul follows Timothy and Erastus to Macedonia, leaving a field of labor that had been most fruitful. How long he spent in Philippi, Thessalon...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Address to the Elders of Ephesus. 17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus,...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The governors and pastors of it; elders being here a title not respecting their age, but their place; and they might be the twelve spoken of in A...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the elders of the church.' Arriving in Miletus Paul then sent messengers to Ephesus to reque...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Paul's Address To The Elders of the Ephesian Church (20:17-38).
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 20:17 . Miletus .—Thirty-six miles south of Ephesus, and on the south-west of the Latmian Gulf. “Now a desolation: then an...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 20:4 . There accompanied him Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, according to the Vulgate. He is called by Paul, Sosipater. Romans 16:21 ....
The Biblical Illustrator

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the Church. Paul at Miletus I. The testimony of faithfulness. 1. Serving faithf...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Acts 20:1 Having sent for … and exhorted for called unto him, A.V. and T.R.; took leave of them, and departed for and e...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the Church.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Paul and the Elders of Ephesus. Paul addresses the elders of Ephesus:
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 5:1 ; 1 Timothy 5:17 ; 2 John 1:1 ; 3 John 1:1 ; Acts 11:30 ; Acts 14:23 ; Acts 15:23 ; Acts 15:4 ; Acts 15:6 ; Acts 16:4 ; Acts 2...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sending to Ephesus, he called the elders of the Church — These are called bishops in Acts 20:28 , (rendered overseers in our translation.) Perhaps...

¹⁷ And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

Related Commentaries of Acts 20:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Acts 20:17