Actes 20:6

6 Pour nous, après les jours des pains sans levain, nous nous embarquâmes à Philippes, et en cinq jours nous les rejoignîmes à Troas, où nous demeurâmes sept jours.

Actes 20:6 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 20:6

And we sailed away from Philippi
Which was in Macedonia, from whence they came in a straight course by Samothracia, over the Hellespont, to Troas, where the above six persons were waiting for them: and they set sail

after the days of unleavened bread;
or the passover; which is mentioned only to observe the time of year when this voyage was taken; and not to suggest to us that Paul and his company stayed at Philippi, and kept this feast there; for the passover was only kept at Jerusalem, and besides was now abolished, and not to be observed by Christians:

and came unto them to Troas in five days;
not that they were five days sailing from Philippi to Troas; but either they were so long in all, from their first setting out into Asia, to their arrival at Troas; or rather, they came to Troas within five days after the above six persons had got thither; so that they waited at Troas but five days for the apostle, and those that accompanied him.

Where we abode seven days;
by what follows they came into Troas on the Lord's day evening, or early on Monday morning, and stayed there till the next Lord's day, or first day of the week; for it follows,

Actes 20:6 In-Context

4 Et il fut accompagné jusqu'en Asie par Sopater de Bérée, par Aristarque et Second de Thessalonique, Gaïus de Derbe, Timothée, et par Tychique et Trophime, d'Asie.

5 Ceux-ci étant allés devant, nous attendirent à Troas.

6 Pour nous, après les jours des pains sans levain, nous nous embarquâmes à Philippes, et en cinq jours nous les rejoignîmes à Troas, où nous demeurâmes sept jours.

7 Et le premier jour de la semaine, les disciples étant assemblés pour rompre le pain, Paul discourait avec eux, devant partir le lendemain, et il prolongea son discours jusqu'à minuit.

8 Or, il y avait beaucoup de lampes dans la chambre haute où ils étaient assemblés.