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Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
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A Warning, Not a Command
Commentators unanimously explain that when the disciples told Paul "through the Spirit" not to go to Jerusalem, it was not a divine command. Rather, the Spirit gave them a prophetic insight into the dangers awaiting Paul. The disciples, out of human love and concern, then urged him not to go. Paul correctly interpreted this as a warning of what to expect, not a prohibition to obey.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And finding disciples. Christians. This is the first mention of Christians being at Tyre; however, there is no improbability in supposing …
Having found (ανευροντες). Second aorist active participle of ανευρισκω, to seek for, to find by searching (ανα). There was a chur…
19th Century
Anglican
And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days.—The word for “finding” implies a previous search. They inquired, when…
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Paul and company sailed the four hundred miles from Patara to Tyre, the famous Phoenician seaport of Syria. A church had been established at Tyre t…
16th Century
Protestant
And when they had found disciples. Though the number of the faithful was small, yet some seed of the gospel came there, according to the p…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And finding disciples
At Tyre, for the Gospel had been preached in Phoenicia by the ministers of the word, who wer…
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Providence must be acknowledged when our affairs go well.
Wherever Paul came, he inquired what disciples were there and found them. Foreseei…
