Acts Chapter 20 verse 23 Holy Bible
save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
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Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.
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only that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me.
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Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
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except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
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save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - Testifieth unto me for witnesseth, A.V. and T.R. The Holy Ghost, speaking by the prophets in the different Church assemblies, as the apostle journeyed from city to city. We have one instance of such prophesying recorded in Acts 21:10, 11. The instances to which St. Paul here alluded were not mentioned in Luke's brief narrative.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) The Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city.--This can hardly refer to mere internal previsions of the future, but implies, like the analogous phraseology of 1Timothy 4:1, predictions uttered by the mouth of prophets, such as that which was afterwards spoken by Agabus (Acts 21:11). In every city, Corinth, Ber?a, Thessalonica, Philippi, Troas, there had been like utterances, of which, though they are here implied, we have no separate record. There was a general dread as to the results of his journey, which led the disciples who loved him to dissuade him from attempting it. We may trace the influence of such predictions in the anxiety which he himself expresses when he asks for the prayers of his friends at Rome (Romans 15:30-31) that he may be delivered from those that did not believe in Judaea. The words are not without their value as throwing light on the nature and limits of inspiration. The prophets of whom St. Paul speaks were truly inspired, as far as their prevision of the future was concerned, and yet that inspiration did not make them infallible advisers, and the Apostle felt that he was right in acting on those convictions of his own in which he, too, recognised the promptings of the Holy Ghost.
