Acts 20:5

These going before tarried for us at Troas. Tarried for us at Troas - See the preceding verse. Troas was a small town in Phrygia Minor, in the province called the Troad: see Acts 16:8.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These going before - Going before Paul and Luke. Dr. Doddridge supposes that only Tychicus and Trophimus went before the others. Perhaps the Gree...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

To Greece; Return to Troas. The journey sketched in Acts 19:21 ; 1 Corinthians 16:5-9 , is entered on; for what happened at Troas and in Macedoni...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

tarried . were waiting. at . in. Greek. en . App-104. Troas . Compare Acts 16:8 ; 2 Corinthians 2:12 .
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

These going before tarried for us at Troas. These going before (perhaps to announce and prepare for the apostle's coming) tarried for us at T...
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

These going before tarried for us at Troas. — Two motives may be assigned for this arrangement — (1) It enabled St. Paul to keep the Passover with...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Messenger of Truth and Life Acts 20:1-12 The Second Epistle to the Corinthians should be read with the introductory verses of this chapter, a...
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 after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia. (2) And when he had go...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

These going before ,.... The apostle into Asia, all but Sopater, who accompanied him: tarried for us at Troas ; a city in Asia Minor; see Acts 16...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

These going before tarried for us at Troas. Ver. 5. Tarried for us at Troas ] See Trapp on " Act 16:8 "
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea , &c. The several persons mentioned in this verse are thought by some to have been joined w...
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 Departure from Ephesus; Paul's Removal to Troas. 1 And after the uproar wa...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Us; whereby it appears, that St. Luke was one of them that accompanied St. Paul, though neither here nor elsewhere doth he express his own name. T...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Paul's Visits To Macedonia and Greece And Seven Days in Troas (20:1-6). It is indicative of Luke's concentration on the new direction in which eve...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Journey to Jerusalem (20:3-21:16). As we read this section of Acts some of it may seem a little pointless and repetitive. But we must recognis...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas.' These (apart possibly from Sopater) had been sent ahead and were waiting at Troas, qu...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 20:1 . After the uproar was ceased .—Soon after, but not necessarily because of the uproar. The best authorities insert a...
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 after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for Macedonia. Reading between the lines T...
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

The Journey to Macedonia and Back to Miletus. The second visit to Macedonia and Greece:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

These going before tarried for us at Troas. Paul had intended to make a trip to Macedonia and Achaia, chap, 19:21. That the riot in the city mater...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 2:12 ; 2 Timothy 4:13 ; Acts 16:11 ; Acts 16:8

⁵ These going before tarried for us at Troas.

Related Commentaries of Acts 20:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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

John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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

Acts 20:5