Acts 20:19

20:19 serving the Lord with all humility ¹  and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots ²  of the Jews.

Acts 20:31

20:31 Therefore be alert, ³  remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning ⁴  each one of you with tears.

Acts 20:37-38

20:37 They all began to weep loudly, ⁵  and hugged ⁶  Paul and kissed him, ⁷  20:38 especially saddened ⁸  by what ⁹  he had said, that they were not going to see him ¹⁰  again. Then they accompanied ¹¹  him to the ship.

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¹ sn On humility see 2 Cor 10:1; 11:7; 1 Thess 2:6; Col 3:12; Eph 4:2; Phil 2:3-11.

² sn These plots are mentioned in Acts 9:24; 20:13.

³ tn Or “be watchful.”

⁴ tn Or “admonishing.”

⁵ tn Grk “weeping a great deal,” thus “loudly” (BDAG 472 s.v. ἱκανός and BDAG 546 s.v. κλαυθμός).

⁶ tn Grk “fell on Paul’s neck” (an idiom, see BDAG 1014 s.v. τράχηλος).

⁷ sn The Ephesians elders kissed Paul as a sign of both affection and farewell. The entire scene shows how much interrelationship Paul had in his ministry and how much he and the Ephesians meant to each other.

⁸ tn Or “pained.”

⁹ tn Grk “by the word that he had said.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “to see his face” (an idiom for seeing someone in person).

¹¹ tn BDAG 873 s.v. προπέμπω 1 has “they accompanied him to the ship Ac 20:38.”