Acts 20:16

"For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost"He was hastening": "The imperfect tense verb hurrying expresses the desire for speed during the whole voyage" (Reese p. 742). "To be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost": "In chapter two it was suggested that Pentecost was the feast that attracted the most pilgrims to Jerusalem during any one year, and this would give Paul. great opportunity to witness for Christ" (Reese p. 742). Boles notes, "If Paul could get to Jerusalem by Pentecost he could present the gifts from the Gentile churches in the presence of the great crowd of foreign Jews who would assemble in Jerusalem and thus spread abroad in all lands the great fact that the Gentile Christians were one with their Jewish brethren; this would impress them that the disciples of the Lord were one body" (p. 321).