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Acts 18:20
“When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;”
Verse in context — Acts 18
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Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
19
He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
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When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;
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but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.
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When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.
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