Acts 20:11

When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. WHEN HE THEREFORE WAS COME UP AGAIN, AND HAD BROKEN BREAD, AND EATEN - literally, 'and had broken the bread [ ton (G3588) arton (G740) appears to be the true reading] and tasted' [ geusamenos (G1089)]. The former expression seems plainly to denote the celebration of the Lord's Supper; their intention to do so being expressed in Acts 20:7, but their actually doing it nowhere if not here. The latter expression, 'and had tasted,' is nowhere used of the celebration of the Supper,...

7-12 Though the disciples read, and meditated, and prayed, and sung apart, and thereby kept up communion with God, yet they came together to worship God, and so kept up their communion with one another. They came together on the first day of the week, the Lord's day. It is to be religiously observed by all disciples of Christ. In the breaking of the bread, not only the breaking of Christ's body for us, to be a sacrifice for our sins, is remembered, but the breaking of Christ's body to us, to be food and a feast for our souls, is signified. In the early times it was the custom to receive the Lord's supper every Lord's day, thus celebrating the memorial of Christ's death. In this assembly Paul preached. The preaching of the gospel ought to go with the sacraments. They were willing to hear, he saw they were so, and continued his speech till midnight. Sleeping when hearing the word, is an e...

Verse Acts 20:11. _HAD BROKEN BREAD_] Had taken some refreshment, in order to their journey. _AND TALKED A LONG WHILE_] ομιλησας, Having _familiarly conversed_, for this is the import of the word, which is very different from the διελεγετο, of the _seventh_ verse, and the διαλεγομενου, of the _ninth_; which imply solemn, grave discourse....

COME UP AGAIN - To the upper room, Acts 20:8. AND HAD BROKEN BREAD, AND EATEN - Had taken refreshment. As this is spoken of Paul only, it is evidently distinguished from the celebration of the Lord’s Supper....

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 embraced them, and departed, _A.V. DEPARTED FOR TO GO INTO MACEDONIA. This was St. Paul's purpose, as he had written to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 16:5) from Ephesus. He judged it wise, not only with a view to his own safety and that of his companions, but also for the rest and quiet of the Ephesian Church, to take advantage of the lull in the popular storm, and withdraw into quiet waters before any fresh outbreak occurred. Aquila and Priscilla seem to have left Ephesus about the same time, or soon after, since the Epistle to the Romans found them again at Rome ...

WHEN HE THEREFORE WAS COME UP AGAIN,.... Into the upper room, where he was before, and where the disciples were gathered together: AND HAD BROKEN BREAD AND EATEN; administered the Lord's supper, and also eat for his bodily refreshment: AND TALKED A LONG WHILE: about the ordinance and the doctrines of the Gospel, and spiritual experience, and such like divine things: EVEN TILL BREAK OF DAY; not knowing when to leave off: SO HE DEPARTED; without taking any rest; though before he departed, what follows was done; it was at this time he left his cloak, books, and parchments here, 2 Timothy 4:13....

CHAPTER 20 __ 1. Paul in Macedonia (Acts 20:1). 2. His abode in Greece, the visit to Troas and what transpired there (Acts 20:3). 3. The journey from Troas to Miletus (Acts 20:13). 4. The farewell to the Ephesian Elders (Acts 20:17). The record before us is very brief. Some have thought the reason is the fact that the Apostle had turned aside from His given ministry, and therefore the Holy Spirit had nothing to report. We believe that this is correct. The object of the Spirit of God is now to lead us rapidly forward to the last visit of the Apostle to Jerusalem, therefore much is passed over in the untiring s

STORY OF EUTYCHUS. Paul speaks of the first day of the week in 1 Corinthians 16:2, but not of a breaking of bread on that day, which appears here as an established usage (_cf. Acts 24:2_). It is Paul's last interview with these people, and he makes the most of it. The lights may be mentioned because of the accusation in early days that the Lord's Supper was partaken of in darkness and was accompanied by excesses. Eutychus (Acts 20:9) is a common name. The treatment is like that by Elijah (1 Kings 17:21), but the incident may be quite natural: it is reported by an eyewitness. It does not interrupt the proceedings nor, except for a shor

SETTING OUT FOR JERUSALEM (Acts 20:1-6)...

BREAD. The texts read "the bread", to support the idea that it was. Eucharistic service, but see note on Acts 20:7 and the references in Acts 2:42. TALKED. Greek. _homileo._ Only here, Acts 24:26; Luke 24:14; Luke 24:15. Hence our word "homily", for. solemn discourse. A LONG WHILE. for (Greek. _epi._ App-104.) long (time). BREAK OF DAY. Greek. _auge._ Only here. SO. Emph. to call attention to the circumstances attending his departure....