Acts 20:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ And when he had spent three months there, and a plot was laid against him by the Jews, as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Having spent three months there, when a plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he resolved to go back through Macedonia.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And when he had spent three months there, and a plot was laid against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

Common English Bible

³ he stayed for three months. Because the Jews hatched a plot against Paul as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided instead to return through Macedonia.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ After he had spent three months there, treacheries were planned against him by the Jews, just as he was about to sail into Syria. And having been advised of this, he return through Macedonia.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Where, when he had spent three months, the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria; so he took a resolution to return through Macedonia.

Acts 20:3 Cross References

Ezra 8:31

Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the lier in wait by the way.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood, Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

Jeremiah 5:26

For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

Matthew 4:24

And the report of him went forth into all Syria: and they brought unto him all that were sick, holden with divers diseases and torments, possessed with devils, and epileptic, and palsied; and he healed them.

Acts 16:12

and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a Roman colony: and we were in this city tarrying certain days.

Acts 16:9

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There was a man of Macedonia standing, beseeching him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.

Acts 18:18

And Paul, having tarried after this yet many days, took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchreae: for he had a vow.

Acts 19:21

Now after these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.

Acts 20:1

And after the uproar was ceased, Paul having sent for the disciples and exhorted them, took leave of them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.

Acts 20:19

serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews:

Acts 20:2

And when he had gone through those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece.

Acts 21:3

And when we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed unto Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.

Acts 25:3

asking favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying wait to kill him on the way.

2 Corinthians 1:15

And in this confidence I was minded to come before unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;

2 Corinthians 11:26

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

2 Corinthians 7:5

For even when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

Galatians 1:21

Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.