Acts 20:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And we went away from Philippi by ship after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them at Troas in five days; and we were there for seven days.

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  • Acts 12:3 : 3 And when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews he went on to take Peter in addition. This was at the time of the feast of unleavened bread.
  • Exod 12:14-15 : 14 And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever. 15 For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.
  • Exod 23:15 : 15 You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt); and let no one come before me without an offering:
  • Acts 16:12 : 12 And from there to Philippi, which is the most important town of Macedonia and a Roman colony: and we were there for some days.
  • Exod 34:18 : 18 Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came out of Egypt.
  • Exod 12:18-20 : 18 In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month. 19 For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth. 20 Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.
  • Exod 13:6-7 : 6 For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord. 7 Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the seven days; let no leavened bread be seen among you, or any leaven, in any part of your land.
  • 1 Cor 5:7-8 : 7 Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover. 8 Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.
  • Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons of the church:
  • 1 Thess 2:2 : 2 But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.
  • 2 Tim 4:13 : 13 The coat which I did not take from Troas and which is with Carpus, get when you come, and the books, specially the papers.
  • Acts 16:8 : 8 And going past Mysia, they came down to Troas.
  • Acts 21:4 : 4 And meeting the disciples we were there for seven days: and they gave Paul orders through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 21:8 : 8 And on the day after, we went away and came to Caesarea, where we were guests in the house of Philip, the preacher, who was one of the seven.
  • Acts 28:14 : 14 Where we came across some of the brothers, who kept us with them for seven days; and so we came to Rome.

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  • Acts 20:7-8
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    7 And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.

    8 And there were a number of lights in the room where we had come together.

  • Acts 20:2-5
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    2 And when he had gone through those parts and given them much teaching, he came into Greece.

    3 And when he had been there three months, because the Jews had made a secret design against him when he was about to take ship for Syria, he made a decision to go back through Macedonia.

    4 And Sopater of Beroea, the son of Pyrrhus, and Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia, went with him as far as Asia.

    5 But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas.

  • Acts 20:13-16
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    13 But we, going before him by ship, went to Assos with the purpose of taking Paul in there: for so he had given orders, because he himself was coming by land.

    14 And when he came up with us at Assos, we took him in the ship and went on to Mitylene.

    15 And going from there by sea, we came on the day after opposite Chios, and touching at Samos on the day after that, we came on the third day to Miletus.

    16 For Paul's purpose was to go past Ephesus, so that he might not be kept in Asia; for he was going quickly, in order, if possible, to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

  • Acts 21:1-8
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    1 And after parting from them, we put out to sea and came straight to Cos, and the day after to Rhodes, and from there to Patara:

    2 And as there was a ship going to Phoenicia, we went in it.

    3 And when we had come in view of Cyprus, going past it on our left, we went on to Syria, and came to land at Tyre: for there the goods which were in the ship had to be taken out.

    4 And meeting the disciples we were there for seven days: and they gave Paul orders through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.

    5 And when these days came to an end, we went on our journey; and they all, with their wives and children, came with us on our way till we were out of the town: and after going on our knees in prayer by the sea,

    6 We said our last words to one another, and got into the ship, and they went back to their houses.

    7 And journeying by ship from Tyre we came to Ptolemais; and there we had talk with the brothers and were with them for one day.

    8 And on the day after, we went away and came to Caesarea, where we were guests in the house of Philip, the preacher, who was one of the seven.

  • Acts 28:11-15
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    11 And after three months we went to sea in a ship of Alexandria sailing under the sign of the Dioscuri, which had been at the island for the winter.

    12 And going into the harbour at Syracuse, we were waiting there for three days.

    13 And from there, going about in a curve, we came to Rhegium: and after one day a south wind came up and on the day after we came to Puteoli:

    14 Where we came across some of the brothers, who kept us with them for seven days; and so we came to Rome.

    15 And the brothers, when they had news of us, came out from town as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns to have a meeting with us: and Paul, seeing them, gave praise to God and took heart.

  • Acts 16:10-13
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    10 And when he had seen the vision, straight away we made the decision to go into Macedonia, for it seemed certain to us that God had sent us to give the good news to them.

    11 So, from Troas we went straight by ship to Samothrace and the day after to Neapolis;

    12 And from there to Philippi, which is the most important town of Macedonia and a Roman colony: and we were there for some days.

    13 And on the Sabbath we went outside the town, by the river, where we had an idea that there would be a place of prayer; and, being seated, we had talk with the women who had come together.

  • Acts 21:15-17
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    15 And after these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.

    16 And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, taking a certain Mnason of Cyprus, one of the early disciples, in whose house we were to be living.

    17 And when we came to Jerusalem, the brothers were pleased to see us.

  • Acts 20:11
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    11 And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away.

  • Acts 27:4-9
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    4 And sailing again from there, we went on under cover of Cyprus, because the wind was against us.

    5 And having gone across the sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia we came to Myra, in Lycia.

    6 And there the captain came across a ship of Alexandria, sailing for Italy, and put us in it.

    7 And when we had gone on slowly for a long time, and had had hard work getting across to Cnidus, for the wind was against us, we went under cover of Crete, in the direction of Salmone;

    8 And sailing down the side of it, as well as we were able, we came to a certain place named Fair Havens, near which was the town of Lasea.

    9 And as a long time had gone by, and the journey was now full of danger, because it was late in the year, Paul put the position before them,

  • Acts 16:8
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    8 And going past Mysia, they came down to Troas.

  • Acts 27:2
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    2 And we went to sea in a ship of Adramyttium which was sailing to the sea towns of Asia, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

  • Acts 25:6
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    6 And when he had been with them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the day after, he took his place on the judge's seat, and sent for Paul.

  • Acts 17:2
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    2 And Paul, as he generally did, went in to them, and on three Sabbath days had discussions with them from the holy Writings,

  • Acts 24:11
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    11 Seeing that you are able to make certain of the fact that it is not more than twelve days from the time when I came up to Jerusalem for worship;

  • Acts 20:18
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    18 And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,

  • 1 Thess 3:1
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    1 At last our desire to have news of you was so strong that, while we ourselves were waiting at Athens,

  • Acts 27:33
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    33 And when dawn was near, Paul gave them all orders to take food, saying, This is the fourteenth day you have been waiting and taking no food.

  • Acts 17:14
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    14 So the brothers sent Paul straight away to the sea: but Silas and Timothy kept there still.

  • Acts 14:28
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    28 And they were with the disciples there for a long time.

  • Acts 27:27
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    27 But when the fourteenth day came, while we were going here and there in the Adriatic sea, about the middle of the night the sailors had an idea that they were getting near land;

  • Acts 15:36
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    36 And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go back and see the brothers in every town where we have given the word of God, and see how they are.

  • Acts 18:20
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    20 And being requested by them to be there for a longer time, he said, No;