And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom [of God]. (The bracketed words are of very doubtful authority.)

Shall see my face no more. As he had just said that he was going to Jerusalem, not knowing what was to befall him there (), we are not to regard this as a prophetic utterance of an undoubted fact, but as what the apostle in his special circumstances fully expected. Whether, therefore, he ever did see them again must be decided purely on its own evidence. That he did again visit that region, after a first imprisonment, there is reason to think; but even if he did, we may very well believe that he never saw again the very persons now addressed.

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