Kisah Para Rasul 20:19

20:19 serving the Lord with all humility ¹  and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots ²  of the Jews.

Kisah Para Rasul 20:31

20:31 Therefore be alert, ³  remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning ⁴  each one of you with tears.

Kisah Para Rasul 20:37

20:37 They all began to weep loudly, ⁵  and hugged ⁶  Paul and kissed him, ⁷ 

[20:19]  ¹ sn On humility see 2 Cor 10:1; 11:7; 1 Thess 2:6; Col 3:12; Eph 4:2; Phil 2:3-11.

[20:19]  ² sn These plots are mentioned in Acts 9:24; 20:13.

[20:31]  ³ tn Or “be watchful.”

[20:31]  ⁴ tn Or “admonishing.”

[20:37]  ⁵ tn Grk “weeping a great deal,” thus “loudly” (BDAG 472 s.v. ἱκανός and BDAG 546 s.v. κλαυθμός).

[20:37]  ⁶ tn Grk “fell on Paul’s neck” (an idiom, see BDAG 1014 s.v. τράχηλος).

[20:37]  ⁷ sn The Ephesians elders kissed Paul as a sign of both affection and farewell. The entire scene shows how much interrelationship Paul had in his ministry and how much he and the Ephesians meant to each other.