Acts 20:13

And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot. AND WE WENT BEFORE TO SHIP, AND SAILED UNTO ASSOS, THERE INTENDING TO TAKE IN PAUL: FOR SO HAD HE APPOINTED, MINDING HIMSELF TO GO AFOOT, [ pezeuein (G3978)] - to go by land (see the note at Mark 6:33). In sailing southward from Troas to Assos, one has to round Cape Lectum, and keeping due east, to run along the northern shore of the Gulf of Adramyttium, on which it lies. This is a sail of nearly 40 miles; whereas by land, cutting right across in a southeasterly direction, from sea to sea, by that excellent Roman road which then existed, the distance was scarcely more than half. The one way Paul wished his compan...

− 13._When we had taken ship. _It is uncertain why Paul did choose rather to go by land, whether it were because sailing might be to him troublesome, or that as he did pass by he might visit the brethren. I think that he did then eschew the sea for his health’s sake. And his courtesy is greatly to be commended, in that he spared his companions. For to what end did he suffer them to depart, save only that he might ease them of the trouble? So that we see that they did strive among themselves in courtesy and good turns. They were ready and willing to do their duty; but Paul was so far from requiring things straitly − (407) at their hands, that of his own accord and courtesy he did remit those duties which they were ready to do; yea, setting aside his own commodity, he commanded them to do that which was for their comfort. It is well known that the city Assos is by the describers of countri...

13-16 Paul hastened to Jerusalem, but tried to do good by the way, when going from place to place, as every good man should do. In doing God's work, our own wills and those of our friends must often be crossed; we must not spend time with them when duty calls us another way....

Verse Acts 20:13. _SAILED UNTO ASSOS_] _Assos_, according to _Pausanias_, Eliac. ii. 4, and _Pliny_, Hist. Nat. xxxvi. 27, was a maritime town of Asia, in the _Troad_. _Strabo_ and _Stephanus_ place it in _Mysia._ It was also called _Apollonia_, according to _Pliny_, Ib. lib. v. 30. The passage by sea to this place was much longer than by land; and therefore St. Paul chose to go by _land_, while the others went by sea. _INTENDING TO TAKE IN PAUL_] αναλαμβανειν, _To take him in AGAIN_; for it appears he had already been aboard that same vessel: probably the same that had carried them from Philippi to Troas, Acts 20:6....

SAILED UNTO ASSOS - There were several cities of this name. One was in Lycia; one in the territory of Eolis; one in Mysia; one in Lydia; and another in Epirus. The latter is the one intended here. It was between Troas and Mitylene. The distance to it from Troas by land was about 20 miles, while the voyage round Cape Lecture was nearly twice as far, and accordingly Paul chose to go to it on foot. MINDING HIMSELF - Choosing or preferring to go on foot. Most of his journeys were probably performed in this way....

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 ...

AND WE WENT BEFORE TO SHIP,.... That is, Luke, the writer of this history, and the rest of the apostle's company, went before him to a ship, which lay at Troas, and went aboard it: AND SAILED UNTO ASSOS; a city of Aeolia, or Mysia; and is said by Pliny to be the same with Apollonia; and which he places on the sea shore, where it is evident this Assos was. His words are m, "on the shore Antandros, formerly called Edonis, then Cimmeris and Assos, the same with Apollonia.'' And in another place n he calls it Assos of Troas; and says of it, that about Assos of Troas a stone grows, by which all bodies are consumed, and is called "sarcophagus", (a flesh devourer,) of which he also makes mention elsewhere o, and observes, that in Assos of Troas the stone sarcophagus is cut in the pits, in which the bodies of the dead being put, are consumed within forty days, excepting their teeth: and with...

ACTS 20:13 h`mei/j The Armenian catena, which rests upon the Old Syriac text, expands the “we” into “I, Luke, and those who with me went on board,” 363 a reading that Rendel Harris 364 argued was the original Western reading of this verse. ------------------------- 363 See F. C. Conybeare in J. H. Ropes, _The Text of Acts,_ pp. 442 f. 364 _The British Friend,_ April, 1913, quoted in _Expository Times,_ XXIV (1912—13), p. 530....

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

TROAS TO MILETUS. In the Armenian _Catena_ we read: But Luke and those with me came on the vessel; words which, if we were sure of their really being in the journal, would show that Luke was not its author. Preuschen thinks the original text was, But I, Luke, and those with me, the present text being grammatically impossible, and the emendation in the Armenian easy. ACTS 20:13. ASSOS, about twelve miles from Troas by land, on a hilly road. A ship has to round Cape Lekton. The Gr. does not compel us to think that Paul walked the distance; he may have ridden. Acts 20:14. Mitylene, the capital of Lesbos, is not far from Assos. For Chios and Samos, see EBi, HDB. Acts 20:15. The call at Trogylli