And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, about to depart on the morrow, he was also continuing the discourse till midnight,Acts 20:7 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleUpon the first day of the week - What was called κυριακη, the Lord's day, the Christian Sabbath, in which they commemorated the resurrection of our Lord; and which, among all Christians, afterwards took the place of the Jewish Sabbath.
To break bread - To break eucaristia, the eucharist, as the Syriac has it; intimating, by this, that they were accustomed to receive the holy sacrament on each Lord's day. It is likely that, besides this, they received a common meal together. Some think the αγαπη, or love feast, is intended.
Continued his speech until midnight - At what time he began to preach we cannot tell, but we hear when he concluded. He preached during the whole night, for he did not leave off till the break of the next day, Acts 20:11, though about midnight his discourse was interrupted by the fall of Eutychus. As this was about the time of pentecost, and we may suppose about the beginning of May, as Troas was in about 40 degrees of north latitude, the sun set there at seven p.m. and rose at five a.m., so that the night was about eight hours long; and taking all the interruptions together, and they could not have amounted to more than two hours, and taking no account of the preceding day's work, Paul must have preached a sermon not less than six hours long. But it is likely that a good part of this time was employed in hearing and answering questions; for διελεγετο, and διαλεγομενου, may be thus understood.
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the first.
John 20:1,19,26 The first day of the week comes Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, to the sepulcher...
1 Corinthians 16:2 On the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God has prospered him...
Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
the disciples.
1 Corinthians 11:17-21,33,34 Now in this that I declare to you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse...
to break.
Acts 20:11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
Acts 2:42,46 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers...
Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you...
Luke 24:35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break...
1 Corinthians 11:20-34 When you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper...
and continued.
Acts 20:9,11,31 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching...
Acts 28:23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God...
Nehemiah 8:3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women...
Nehemiah 9:3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day...
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed on me was not in vain...
2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
Acts 20:7 Parallel Commentaries
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