Acts 19:22 New English Translation
22 So after sending[a] two of his assistants,[b] Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia,[c] he himself stayed on for a while in the province of Asia.[d]
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- Acts 19:22 tn The aorist participle ἀποστείλας (aposteilas) has been taken temporally reflecting action antecedent to that of the main verb (ἐπέσχεν, epeschen).
- Acts 19:22 tn Grk “two of those who ministered to him.”
- Acts 19:22 sn Macedonia was the Roman province of Macedonia in Greece.
- Acts 19:22 tn Grk “Asia”; in the NT this always refers to the Roman province of Asia. The Roman province of Asia made up about one-third of modern Asia Minor and was on the western side of it. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.
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