Acts 20:1-6

After the uproar died down. Paul had already decided to go through Macedonia and Greece (Acts 19:21), but planned to stay in Ephesus until after Pentecost (1 Corinthians 16:8). This time had come (about the middle of May, 55 or 56 A.D. by the corrected calendar). After he encouraged the disciples, he left for Macedonia. He went through those regions. Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, and perhaps other churches. Then he came to Greece. To Corinth. During the three months there, he wrote the Letter to the Romans (Ramsay gives the spring of 57 A.D. as the date for this). When he discovered. We have no details of this. To avoid them, he did not sail to Syria, but went back through Macedonia. Sopater. Only mentioned here. [Sosipater (Romans 16:21) is a different person.] Aristarchus. Acts 19:29. Secundus. Only mentioned here. Gaius, from Derbe. Not the Gaius of Acts 19:29. Timothy. See notes on Acts 16:1-4 Tychicus. Colossians 4:7-8. Trophimus. Acts 21:29. They went ahead. Paul stayed in Philippi while they went ahead to Troas and waited for him. Waited for us. Us implies Luke was along also. We see Luke with Paul a few years before this (see note on Acts 16:10). Some think Luke had stayed on at Philippi until this time, working with the church there. And five days later. This had only taken two days before (Acts 16:11-12), which implied bad weather.