Discovery BoxActs 20:19 
Context20:19 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
Context20:31 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
Context20:37 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.
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.”
