Acts 16:10 - Exposition

When for after, A.V.; straightway for immediately, A.V.; sought for endeavor ed, A.V. ; go forth for go, A.V.; concluding fur assuredly gathering, A.V. ; God for the Lord, A.V. and T.R. Concluding ; συμβιβάζοντες , only here in the sense of "concluding or "gathering." In Acts 9:22 it is "proving." In Ephesians 4:16 and Colossians 2:2 it means to "join together." In classical Greek to "bring together" in the sense of" reconciling," sometimes of" agreeing" to a proposition. In the LXX ., to ,' instruct," "teach" ( 1 Corinthians 2:16 ). In this verse we first remark the very important introduction of the pronoun we into the narrative, marking the presence of the historian himself, and showing that he first joined St. Paul at Tread He went with him to Philippi ( Colossians 2:12 ), and there he appears to have stopped till St. Paul returned there in his third missionary journey on his way from Achaia to Jerusalem ( Acts 20:5 , Acts 20:6 ), where we find him still with the apostle ( Acts 20:17 , Acts 20:18 ). We again find him with St. Paul at Caesarea, while he was a prisoner there ( Acts 27:1 ), and he accompanied him on the voyage to Rome, which is the last place where we heir of him ( Acts 27:2 , Acts 27:3 . etc.; Acts 28:2 , Acts 28:11 , Acts 28:14-16 ; Colossians 4:14 ; Philemon 1:24 ). It is quite characteristic of Holy Scripture that things are told, or appear on the face of the narrative, without any explanation. Who Luke was, what brought him to Troas, how he became a companion of St. Paul, whether as his medical adviser or otherwise, we know not. His Christian modesty forbade his speaking about himself.