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Acts 20 — Sermon Preparation
Eutychus falls and is raised at Troas; Paul delivers a farewell address to the Ephesian elders at Miletus. Below is a research summary for Acts 20, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 38
- verses
- 676 / 271
- Greek words / lemmas
- 26
- classic sermon excerpts
- 6
- preachers & commentators
Acts 20 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Παῦλος | Paûlos | G3972 | 7 | Paul, Paulus |
| ἡμέρα | hēméra | G2250 | 7 | age, alway, day ), for ever |
| μέλλω | méllō | G3195 | 5 | about, after that, be, to come |
| λόγος | lógos | G3056 | 6 | account, cause, communication, concerning |
| διαμαρτύρομαι | diamartýromai | G1263 | 3 | charge, testify, witness |
| ἱκανός | hikanós | G2425 | 3 | able, content, enough, good |
| Μίλητος | Mílētos | G3399 | 2 | Miletus |
How preachers through history handled this text
26 public-domain excerpts on Acts 20, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“If the Holy Ghost has made ministers overseers of the flock, that is, shepherds, they must be true to their trust. Let them consider their Master's concern for the flock committed to their charge. It is the church He has purchased with his own blood. The blood was his as Man; yet so close is the union between the Divine and human nature, that it is there called the blood of God, for it was the blood of Him who is God. This put such dignity and worth into it, as to ransom believers from all evil, and purchase all good. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Acts 20:28–40 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Macedonia— Acts 20:1
- Assos— Acts 20:13
- Mitylene— Acts 20:14
- Chios— Acts 20:15
- Miletus— Acts 20:15
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