Act 20:6-7 | JFB | STEP | 6. And we sailed . . . from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread —(that is, the Passover). This, compared with , shows that the three months spent at Corinth ( ) were the winter months. came . . . to Troas —for the third and last time. (See on and ). in the five days —As it might have been done in two days, the wind must have been adverse. The vivid style of one now present will be here again observed. where we abode seven days —that is, arriving on a Monday, they stayed over the Jewish sabbath and the Lord's Day following; Paul occupying himself, doubtless, in refreshing and strengthening fellowship with the brethren during the interval.

Acts 20:6-7

6. And we sailed . . . from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread—(that is, the Passover). This, compared with 1Co 16:8, shows that the three months spent at Corinth (Ac 20:3) were the winter months.

came . . . to Troas—for the third and last time. (See on Ac 16:8 and Ac 20:1).

in the five days—As it might have been done in two days, the wind must have been adverse. The vivid style of one now present will be here again observed.

where we abode seven days—that is, arriving on a Monday, they stayed over the Jewish sabbath and the Lord's Day following; Paul occupying himself, doubtless, in refreshing and strengthening fellowship with the brethren during the interval.

7. upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together—This, compared with 1Co 16:2, and other similar allusions, plainly indicates that the Christian observance of the day afterwards distinctly called "the Lord's Day," was already a fixed practice of the churches.

Paul preached—discoursed. The tense implies continued action—"kept discoursing."