The brothers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
- KJV And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
- NKJV Then immediately the brethren sent Paul away, to go to the sea; but both Silas and Timothy remained there.
- NASB Then immediately the brothers sent Paul out to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there.
- NLT The believers acted at once, sending Paul on to the coast, while Silas and Timothy remained behind.
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Quick answer
The believers quickly sent Paul off toward the coast, while Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.
Overview
Again the church protected Paul by moving him to safety. The team split, with Silas and Timothy remaining to strengthen the new converts. This flexibility in mission, sending some ahead and leaving others to build up the church, shows the practical wisdom of the early Christian movement.
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- Acts 17:10As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
- Matt 10:23When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
- Acts 9:25One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.
- Acts 16:1Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.
- Acts 9:30When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
- Acts 20:3where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
- Acts 15:22Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to select men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, two leaders among the brothers,
- Titus 1:5The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.
- Josh 2:16“Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they have returned; then go on your way.”
- 1 Tim 1:3As I urged you on my departure to Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to teach false doctrines
- Acts 19:22He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed for a time in the province of Asia.
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