Acts 20:36
36
When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.
Read Acts 20:36 Using Other Translations
And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.
And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
When he had finished speaking, he knelt and prayed with them.
What does Acts 20:36 mean?
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Acts 20:36
FOOTNOTES:
F11 De Corona Militis, c. 3.
And when he had thus spoken
And finished his speech to the elders: he kneeled down: upon the
floor, which was a prayer gesture, used by Christ, and others;
for, it seems, the disuse of kneeling in prayer, between the
passover and pentecost, which Tertullian F11, and
other writers, speak of, had not yet obtained, which was in
memory of Christ's resurrection from the dead, for this was now
the time: see ( Acts 20:6 Acts 20:16 ) and
prayed with them all:
and no doubt for them all; the Syriac version renders it, "and he
prayed, and all the men with him"; the apostle, and the elders,
joined together in prayer.
F11 De Corona Militis, c. 3.
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