Atos 20:19

19 servindo ao Senhor com toda a humildade, e com lágrimas e provações que pelas ciladas dos judeus me sobrevieram;

Atos 20:19 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 20:19

Serving the Lord with all humility of mind
Meaning, in the ministration of the Gospel, being conscious to himself of his own weakness and insufficiency in himself for such service; no ways elated with those excellent and extraordinary gifts bestowed upon him; ascribing all his success to the power, grace, and Spirit of God; treating no man with contempt and disdain; nor lording it over God's heritage, or claiming a dominion over the faith of men; nor seeking honour nor riches for himself, nor even what he had a just right unto, a maintenance from the people; but laboured with his own hands, and to his own and the necessities of others:

and with many tears;
at the obstinacy and unbelief of some, and at the distresses and afflictions of others, both corporeal and spiritual; as well as on account of the unbecoming walk of some professors:

and temptations which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
who were hardened against his ministrations, and believed not the Gospel preached by him, but spoke evil of it, and lay in wait to take away his life; by reason of which, his afflictions, which he calls temptations, because they were trials of his faith and patience, were very great.

Atos 20:19 In-Context

17 De Mileto mandou a Éfeso chamar os anciãos da igreja.

18 E, tendo eles chegado, disse-lhes: Vós bem sabeis de que modo me tenho portado entre vós sempre, desde o primeiro dia em que entrei na Ásia,

19 servindo ao Senhor com toda a humildade, e com lágrimas e provações que pelas ciladas dos judeus me sobrevieram;

20 como não me esquivei de vos anunciar coisa alguma que útil seja, ensinando-vos publicamente e de casa em casa,

21 testificando, tanto a judeus como a gregos, o arrependimento para com Deus e a fé em nosso Senhor Jesus.