Acts 20:2

2 And [after he] had gone through those regions and encouraged them {at length}, he came to Greece

Acts 20:2 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 20:2

And when he had gone over those parts
Of Macedonia, and the cities in it before mentioned;

and had given them much exhortation;
to abide by the doctrines and ordinances of the Gospel, and to walk worthy of it in their lives and conversations; and this exhortation he was frequently giving, as often as he had opportunity, improving his time much this way, and continued long at it: and, having pursued it to a sufficient length,

he came into Greece;
or Hellas; which, according to Ptolomy ^F5 and Solinus, ^F6, is properly true Greece; the former makes it to be the same with Achaia, where Corinth was; and the latter says it was in his time called Attica, where Athens was; so Pliny ^F7, who also says, that Thessaly was so called: this Hellas included Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly, Achaia, which is properly Greece, Peloponnesus, and the adjacent islands.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Geograph. l. 3. c. 15.
F6 Polyhist, c. 12.
F7 Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 7.

Acts 20:2 In-Context

1 Now after the turmoil had ceased, Paul summoned the disciples, and [after] encouraging [them], he said farewell [and] departed to travel to Macedonia.

2 And [after he] had gone through those regions and encouraged them {at length}, he came to Greece

3 and stayed three months. [Because] a plot was made against him by the Jews [as he] was about to set sail for Syria, he came to a decision to return through Macedonia.

4 And Sopater [son] of Pyrrhus from Berea, and Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, and Gaius from Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia, were accompanying him.

5 And these had gone on ahead [and] were waiting for us in Troas.

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[after]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had gone through") which is understood as temporal
• [b] Literally "with many a word"