The believers acted at once, sending Paul on to the coast, while Silas and Timothy remained behind.
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.
- BSB The brothers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.
- 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.
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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 17:10The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
- Matt 10:23But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.
- Acts 9:25but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
- Acts 16:1He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.
- Acts 9:30When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.
- Acts 20:3When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
- Acts 15:22Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.
- Titus 1:5I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;
- Josh 2:16She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”
- 1 Tim 1:3As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
- Acts 19:22Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
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