Acts 20:3 - Exposition

When he had spent … there for there abode, A.V.; a plot was laid against him by the Jews for when the Jews laid wait for him, A.V.; for for into, A.V.; determined for purposed, A.V. ( ἐγένετο γνώμης , R.T.). When he had spent three months . For this use of ποιεῖν , see Acts 15:33 ; Acts 18:1-28 :33. See also 2 Corinthians 11:25 , where the R.V. varies the rendering, and seems to take ποιεῖν as a verb neuter, as the A.V. does here, the accusative ( μῆνας τρεῖς ) being taken as that of time how long. And a plot , etc. There is no "and" in the Greek. It is better to take the T.R., and to consider ποιήσας as a nominative pendens as ἐπιγνόντες is in Acts 19:34 , according to the reading of Meyer, Alford, etc. A plot was laid against him by the Jews . It appears from this that Apollos had not succeeded in subduing the bigoted hatred of the Corinthian Jews. But probably the desperate measure of a plot against his life ( ἐπιβουλή , as in Acts 9:23 , Acts 9:24 ; Acts 9:19 of this chapter, and Acts 23:1-35 . 30) is an indication that many of their number had joined the Church; and that the unbelieving remnant, being foiled in argument, had recourse to violence. He determined ; literally, according to the R.T., he was of opinion. But the T.R. has ἐγένετο γνώμη , "his opinion was," the construction of the sentence being changed. The three months were probably chiefly spent at Corinth, according to the intention expressed in 1 Corinthians 16:6 , though it would seem that he had stayed a longer time in Macedonia than he anticipated. It was during his sojourn at Corinth that the Epistle to the Romans was written.