Acts 14:20

κυκλ.: Bengel says “tanquam sepeliendum,” and others have held the same view, but the word need not imply more than that the disciples surrounded him, to help if human aid could profit, and to lament for him in his sufferings. Amongst the mourners the youthful Timothy may well have found a place. On Timothy's means of knowing of the Apostle's sufferings here narrated see Paley, Horæ Paulinæ, u. s. μαθητῶν : the Apostles' work had not therefore been unsuccessful: there were converts willing to brave persecution, and to avow themselves as disciples. τῇ ἐπαύριον : the journey to Derbe was one of some hours, not free from risk, and the mention of Paul's undertaking and finishing it on the morrow indicates how wonderfully he had been strengthened in his recovery. The word is found ten times in Acts, and not at all in Luke's Gospel, but cf. αὔριον Luke 10:35; Acts 4:5 only; Hawkins' Horœ Syn., p. 144. It occurs three times in chap. 10, no less than in the second half of the book. σὺν τῷ Β.: apparently he had been free from attack, since Paul was the chief speaker, and consequently provoked hostility.