After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia.
1. Luke declareth in this chapter how Paul, loosing from Asia, did again cross the seas to go to Jerusalem. And though whatsoever is written in this narration be worthy of most diligent meditation and marking, yet doth it need no long exposition. It appeareth that the Church was preserved in safety by the wonderful power of God amidst those troublesome tumults.
These travels of Paul which are thus briefly related, if all in them had been recorded that was memorable and worthy to be written in letters of gold, the world would not contain the books that would have been written; and therefore we have only some general hints of occurrences, which therefore ought to be the more precious. Here is, I. Paul's departure from Ephesus.
Commenting on Acts 20:1-6
CHAPTER 20 Verse 1. The uproar. The tumult excited by Demetrius and the workmen. After it had been quieted by the town-clerk, . Embraced them. Saluted them; gave them parting expressions of kindness. Comp. ; . The Syriac translates this, "Paul called the disciples, and consoled them, and kissed them." To go into Macedonia. On his way to Jerusalem, agreeably to his purpose--recorded in .