Acts 20:35 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

I have showed you all things, how that so labouring - that labouring, as I myself have done, for others as well as myself,

Ye ought to support the weak (cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:14) and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he, [hoti Ye ought to support the weak (cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:14) and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he, [hoti (G3754) autos (G846), ('how Himself') said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. This golden saying, snatched from oblivion, and here added to the Church's abiding treasures, is apt to beget the wish that more of what issued from those lips which "dropped as an honeycomb," had been preserved to us. But see the note at John 21:25.

The Parting (20:36-38)

Acts 20:35

35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.