Actes 20:34

34 Et vous savez vous-mêmes que ces mains ont pourvu à mes besoins et à ceux des personnes qui étaient avec moi.

Actes 20:34 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 20:34

Yea, you yourselves know
So far was the apostle from desiring to have other men's money, or to wear their apparel, or to eat their bread, that he could appeal to these elders for the truth of it, they having been eyewitnesses of it:

that these hands have ministered unto my necessities;
meaning, that he had wrought with his hands, which he then held up, or stretched out, at tent making, along with Aquila and Priscilla, at Ephesus, as he had done before at Corinth, ( Acts 18:2 Acts 18:3 Acts 18:18 Acts 18:19 ) and therewith supplied himself with necessaries for food and clothing; for though he had a power, as a minister of the Gospel, to forbear working, and to insist upon a maintenance from the churches, yet in some cases, and in some places, he chose rather to forego that, lest he should either any ways hinder the progress of the Gospel at the first preaching of it, or be burdensome to the churches, or give the false teachers any handle against him; and he not only supported himself in this way, but assisted others also:

and to them that were with me;
as Luke, Timothy, and others; see ( Acts 20:4 ) .

Actes 20:34 In-Context

32 Et maintenant, frères, je vous recommande à Dieu et à la parole de sa grâce, lui qui peut vous édifier et vous donner l'héritage avec tous les saints.
33 Je n'ai désiré ni l'argent, ni l'or, ni les vêtements de personne.
34 Et vous savez vous-mêmes que ces mains ont pourvu à mes besoins et à ceux des personnes qui étaient avec moi.
35 Je vous ai montré en toutes choses, que c'est ainsi qu'en travaillant, il faut secourir les faibles, et se souvenir des paroles du Seigneur Jésus, qui a dit lui-même: Il y a plus de bonheur à donner qu'à recevoir.
36 Quand il eut dit cela, il se mit à genoux, et pria avec eux tous.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.