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Introduction
Introduction
unlike other Pauline language throughout Acts>
Instead of evangelism and apologetics, this is encouragement to believers and exhortation to the church’s leadership.
This is therefore more like the Pauline material we find in the Pastoral Epistles.
This is about the time Paul is:
Just leaving the uproar in Ephesus
Writing 1 and 2 Corinthians
Collecting the Jerusalem relief offering, which might explain his traveling companions.
They represent areas where Paul had ministered
They may be representing their own churches’ in support of Jerusalem
They represent an example of early catholicity of the church
Saying his final goodbye to the churches of Asia Minor as he presses on towards Jerusalem and then to Rome and death.
Has faced a series of dangerous and even life threatening situations in his ministry.
Still his concern is to comfort, encourage, exhort (παρακαλέω) the congregations he has planted and nurtured.
Start of Paul’s Farewell Journey ()
From Ephesus to Troas ()
Encouraging the Believers ()
unlike other Pauline language throughout Acts>
Instead of evangelism and apologetics, this is encouragement to believers and exhortation to the church’s leadership.
This is therefore more like the Pauline material we find in the Pastoral Epistles.
This is about the time Paul is…
writing 1 and 2 Corinthians
collecting the Jerusalem relief offering, which might explain his traveling companions.
They represent areas where Paul had ministered
They may be representing their own churches’ in support of Jerusalem
They represent an example of early catholicity of the church
saying his final goodbye to the churches of Asia Minor as he presses on towards Jerusalem and then to Rome and death.
Encouraging the Believers ()
Paul’s travel plans ()
Nurturing the fruit of his earlier work even as he presses on to Jerusalem and Rome
Earlier visits had been for proclamation, evangelism, apologetics.
This circuit was to encourage/exhort (παρακαλέω)
In all the towns
Many encouraging messages
Plot against Paul’s life leading to changing travel itinerary
Plan was to sail to Syria
Increased danger aboard a ship at sea
We hear none of that on this visit.
All the more risk if he and his companions were known to be carrying large sums of money that the Jerusalem relief would have entailed.
Decides to go overland through Macedonia.
But we hear of a plot against him which threaten
Travel Companions ()
Probably not fellow missionaries but rather the fruit of his labors
Fruit of his labors
Delegates demonstrating the emerging “catholicity” of the church
Look at the regions represented by this team of coworkers
Berea and Thessalonica in Greece
Derbe from Asia Minor, and the Roman “province of Asia”
The offering for Jerusalem probably on the agenda for this group
Celebrating the Christian “Passover” (i.e., Easter) in Philippi
The “we” language picks up again after some time, indicating Luke has rejoined Paul
Maybe Luke had stayed in Philippi
Now Luke continues with the team until they arrive in Jerusalem (), though he is absent from the scene in Miletus.
Final Visit to Troas ()
Death and Resuscitation of Eutychus
Principles of Christian worship
Principles of Christian worship
Preaching with Signs Following ()
Local believers meeting in an upstairs room.
Not a house church meeting in someone’s large home
Not meeting in a hall like that of Tyrannus
Might be something like a meeting in someone’s apartment today
Meeting on the first day of the week instead of the Sabbath
If Jewish reckoning, this could have been Sabbath evening.
If later Christian reckoning, Sunday evening.
Gathering to…
Share in the Lord’s Supper (κλάσαι ἄρτον, v. 7)… and eat together (κλάσας τὸν ἄρτον καὶ γευσάμενος, v. 11)
Michael W. Holmes, The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (Lexham Press; Society of Biblical Literature, 2011–2013), .v. 11)
Eucharist (κλάσαι ἄρτον, vv. 7, 11)—first time we’ve heard of breaking bread together start of the book ()
Love feast--”snack church” (γεύομαι)?
Hear the preaching (διαλεγομένου τοῦ Παύλου ἐπὶ πλεῖον)
Michael W. Holmes, The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (Lexham Press; Society of Biblical Literature, 2011–2013), .)
Was perhaps dialogue rather than just monologue
Took a long time, as “Paul kept talk till midnight” (παρέτεινέν τε τὸν λόγον μέχρι μεσονυκτίου, v. 7), “Paul spoke on and on” (διαλεγομένου τοῦ Παύλου ἐπὶ πλεῖον, v. 9), then “until dawn” (ἄχρι αὐγῆς, v. 11)
Michael W. Holmes, The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (Lexham Press; Society of Biblical Literature, 2011–2013), .v. 7), “Paul spoke on and on,” then “until dawn.”
Michael W. Holmes, The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (Lexham Press; Society of Biblical Literature, 2011–2013), ), then “until dawn.”
Maybe the norm, although Luke’s comments may hint that this was extraordinary
Perhaps the length of the service is connected to understanding that this is their last chance with Paul.
Meetings after dark
Evidence: talk of lamps, midnight, and going on till dawn
Significance
Roman laws against religious groups meeting after dark
Roman slander about what Christians did after dark
Harmless meeting
Dialogue
No orgies, cannibalism, or talk of insurrection.
Family-like meal
Religious teaching and dialogue, family-like meal, and the occasional resurrection from the dead.
Resurrection from the dead
Paul Meets the Ephesus Elders in Miletus ()
From Troas to Miletus ()
Coastal Voyage to Miletus ()
Bypassing Ephesus ()
A Farewell to the Ephesians ()
First retroperspective/prospective narrative ()
Paul’s way of life in Ephesus ()
Paul’s future trip to Jerusalem ()
Second restrospective/prospective narrative ()
Paul’s ministry among the Ephesians ()
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