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Acts 20:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
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Role in This Section
Records three months and a route change after a Jewish plot.
Read It With
- Acts 20:1–20:6
Acts 20:3 records three months and a route change after a Jewish plot; within Acts 20:1–20:6, the controlling movement is that After the riot Paul encourages disciples, travels through Macedonia and Greece, changes course because of a plot, and a named multi-regional team precedes him to Troas after Passover season.
Why It Needs Context
Records three months and a route change after a Jewish plot. Its responsible force depends on the full sequence, speaker, narrator framing, and outcome of Acts 20:1–20:6; it is connective evidence rather than a complete standalone teaching.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 20:1–20:6 — Paul strengthens communities on the way to TroasSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 20:1–20:6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 20:1-20:6
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