Acts Chapter 18 verse 20 Holy Bible
And when they asked him to abide a longer time, he consented not;
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And being requested by them to be there for a longer time, he said, No;
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And when they asked him that he would remain for a longer time [with them] he did not accede,
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When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;
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When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;
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and they having requested `him' to remain a longer time with them, he did not consent,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - And when they asked for when they desired, A.V.; abide a for tarry, A.V.; time for time with them, A.V. He consented not; οὐκ ἐπένευσεν, only here in the New Testament, but found in Proverbs 26:20; 2 Macc. 4:10, etc., and frequently in medical writers; literally, to bend the head forward by the proper muscles (Hobart).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) When they desired him to tarry longer time with them.--This was, obviously, a hopeful sign, the earnest of the fruitful labours that followed. Nowhere, among the churches that he founded, does St. Paul seem to have found so great a receptivity for spiritual truth. While he looked on the Corinthians as being children requiring to be fed with milk (1Corinthians 3:2), he saw in the Ephesians those to whom he did not shun to declare "the whole counsel of God" (Acts 20:27), to whom he could, at a later date, appeal as able to measure his knowledge of the mystery of the gospel (Ephesians 3:4).
