Postulasagan 16:10

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10 En jafnskjótt og hann hafði séð þessa sýn, leituðum vér færis að komast til Makedóníu, þar sem vér skildum, að Guð hafði kallað oss til þess að flytja þeim fagnaðarerindið.

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immediately: Acts 10:29, Acts 26:13, Psalms 119:60, Proverbs 3:27, Proverbs 3:28, 2 Corinthians 2:12, 2 Corinthians 2:13

Reciprocal: Luke 10:2 - are Acts 19:22 - Macedonia Acts 21:8 - we that Acts 27:2 - with us 1 Corinthians 14:36 - came Galatians 2:2 - by 2 Timothy 4:11 - Luke 1 Peter 1:12 - that have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And after he had seen the vision,.... And considered it, and related it to his companions: and when they had well weighed it, and the circumstances of it:

immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia; they determined upon it, and took all the proper methods, and made the necessary provisions for it. Here Luke, the writer of this history, first appears, saying, "we endeavoured"; whether he came with the apostle from Antioch, since he is commonly said to have been a physician of Antioch; or whether he met the apostle at Troas, since here is the first hint of him, is not certain:

assuredly gathering, that the Lord had called us for to preach the Gospel unto them; they concluded from the vision with great certainty, that they had a manifest call from God to go into Macedonia, and preach the Gospel to the inhabitants of it, not doubting but that they should meet with success. The Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions, read "God", instead of "Lord".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

We endeavored - This is the first instance in which Luke refers to himself as being in company with Paul. It is hence probable that he joined Paul and Silas about this time, and it is evident that he attended Paul in his travels, as recorded throughout the remainder of the Acts .

Assuredly gathering - Being certainly convinced.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 16:10. We endeavoured to go into Macedonia — This is the first place that the historian St. Luke refers to himself: WE endeavoured, c. And, from this, it has been supposed that he joined the company of Paul, for the first time, at Troas.

Assuredly gathering — συμβιβαζοντες, Drawing an inference from the vision that had appeared.

That the Lord had called us for to preach — That is, they inferred that they were called to preach the Gospel in Macedonia, from what the vision had said, come over and help us the help meaning, preach to us the Gospel. Instead of οκυριος, the Lord, meaning JESUS, several MSS., such as ABCE, several others, with the Coptic, Vulgate, Theophylact, and Jerome, have οθεος, GOD. Though this stands on very reputable authority, yet the former seems to be the better reading; for it was the SPIRIT of JESUS, Acts 16:7, that would not suffer them to go into Bithynia, because he had designed that they should immediately preach the Gospel in Macedonia.