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The believers in Troas (cf. 2 Corinthians 2:12–13) had a "meeting" on the first day of the week (verse 7; cf. Acts 2:42), which started on Saturday night (at that time, Sunday was a working day, so the practice was to gather on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning as noted by Pliny, Ep. 10.96.7), perhaps after work for some people ...
Although many lists of missing verses specifically name the New International Version as the version that omits them, these same verses are missing from the main text (and mostly relegated to footnotes) in the Revised Version of 1881 (RV), the American Standard Version of 1901, the Revised Standard Version of 1947 (RSV), [1] the Today's English ...
Breaking bread (daily or weekly) may refer to Christian fellowship, agape feasts, or Eucharist (cf. Acts 2:42, 20:7). Didache 14 was apparently understood by the writers of the Didascalia and Apostolic Constitutions as a reference to Sunday worship. Around 110 AD, St. Ignatius of Antioch used "Lord's" in a passage of his letter to the ...
Acts 20:32 = Ephesians 1:14,18 [37] "The inheritance of the saints." Purpose. The purpose of the epistle, and to whom it was written, are matters of much speculation. ...
Acts 20:9, 10-13, 15-16 1 Frg Austrian National Library: K 7545 Vienna: Austria ANL [37] CSNTM, INTF: Acts 20:22-24, 26-28 1 Frg Austrian National Library: K 7546 Vienna: Austria ANL [38] CSNTM, INTF: Acts 20:28-30 1 Frg Austrian National Library: K 7426 Vienna: Austria ANL [39] INTF: Acts 20:30-31 1 Frg Austrian National Library: K 7731 Vienna ...
The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.
He did not examine the text of Acts and the epistles because, according to Soden, their text was ordinary. In 1903, Lake published the text of the Gospel of Mark 9:5-16:20, and a collation of the gospels of Luke, John, and the Epistle to the Colossians in Studia Biblica et Ecclesiastica .
The narrative follows Paul's journey from Miletus, stopping in Tyre (verse 3), Ptolemais (verse 7), and Caesarea (verse 8), before heading to Jerusalem (verse 15), incorporating 'prophetic warnings' (verses 4, 11) and a 'solemn farewell' (verses 6, 14) to 'exemplify and reinforce the tone of Paul's address' in Acts 20:23 while presenting Paul ...