Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
this continued . . . two years--in addition to the former three months. See on Acts 20:31. But during some part of this period he must have paid a second unrecorded visit to Corinth, since the one next recorded (see on Acts 20:2-3) is twice called his third visit (2 Corinthians 12:14; 2 Corinthians 13:1). See on 2 Corinthians 1:15-16, which might seem inconsistent with this. The passage across was quite a short one (see on Acts 18:19) --Towards the close of this long stay at Ephesus, as we learn from 1 Corinthians 16:8, he wrote his FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS; also (though on this opinions are divided) the EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS. (See Introduction to First Corinthians, and Introduction to Galatians). And just as at Corinth his greatest success was after his withdrawal to a separate place of meeting (Acts 18:7-10), so at Ephesus.
so that all they which dwelt in--the Roman province of
Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks--This is the "great door and effectual opened unto him" while resident at Ephesus (1 Corinthians 16:9), which induced him to make it his headquarters for so long a period. The unwearied and varied character of his labors here are best seen in his own subsequent address to the elders of Ephesus (Acts 20:17, etc.). And thus Ephesus became the "ecclesiastical center for the entire region, as indeed it remained for a very long period" [BAUMGARTEN]. Churches arose at Colosse, Laodicea, and Hierapolis eastward, either through his own labors or those of his faithful helpers whom he sent out in different directions, Epaphras, Archippus, Philemon (Colossians 1:7; Colossians 4:12-17; Philemon 1:23).
he went into the synagogue and spake boldly for . . . three months, etc.--See on Acts 17:2-3.
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1 Corinthians 16:9
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