ACTS 17:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.”
The believers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at Berea — Paul's removal to safety, while Silas and Timothy remain, may suggest Paul's prominence as primary target, or a calculated strategy of maintaining apostolic presence while protecting the first apostle. Luke does not elaborate his reasoning.
Church Fathers on Acts 17:14
Therefore many of them believed; also of honorable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came there also, and stirred up the people. And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still. Acts 17:12-14 See how he at one time gives way, at another presses on, and in many things takes his measures…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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