Bible Strands
Acts 17:14
The brothers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The author records the Berean believers’ response after hostile Jews from Thessalonica arrive to agitate the crowds against Paul. The words — εὐθέως (eutheōs) means immediately, and ἐξαπέστειλαν (exapesteilan) means they sent away, describing the church’s swift logistical action. The thread — The text places this relocation alongside the brothers sending Paul and Silas to Berea in Acts 17:10, the flight command in Matthew 10:23, and the disciples lowering Paul through a wall in Acts 9:25. Why it lands — The passage states that believers moved Paul to the coast while leaving Silas and Timothy behind, which requires readers to accept strategic withdrawal as a normative church practice rather than a failure of courage.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
Cross-references
- Acts 17:10 As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
- Matthew 10:23 When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
- Acts 9:25 One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.
- Acts 9:30 When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
- Acts 16:1 Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.
- Joshua 2:16 “Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they have returned; then go on your way.”
- Acts 15:22 Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to select men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, two leaders among the brothers,
- Acts 19:22 He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed for a time in the province of Asia.
- Acts 20:3 where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
- 1 Timothy 1:3 As I urged you on my departure to Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to teach false doctrines