• Acts 20:20
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures

    • 20 ὡς as οὐδὲν nothing ὑπεστειλάμην I drew back τῶν of the συμφερόντων (things) bearing together τοῦ of the μὴ not ἀναγγεῖλαι to recount ὑμῖν to YOU καὶ and διδάξαι to teach ὑμᾶς YOU δημοσίᾳ to public [place] καὶ and κατ’ according to οἴκους, houses,

  • Acts Study Notes—Chapter 20
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

    • 20:20

      from house to house: Or “in different houses.” The context shows that Paul had visited the houses of these men to teach them “about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.” (Ac 20:21) Therefore, he is not referring solely to social calls or visits to encourage fellow Christians after they became believers, since fellow believers would already have repented and exercised faith in Jesus. In his book Word Pictures in the New Testament, Dr. A. T. Robertson comments as follows on Ac 20:20: “It is worth noting that this greatest of preachers preached from house to house and did not make his visits merely social calls.” (1930, Vol. III, pp. 349-350) In The Acts of the Apostles With a Commentary (1844), Abiel Abbot Livermore made this comment on Paul’s words at Ac 20:20: “He was not content merely to deliver discourses in the public assembly . . . but zealously pursued his great work in private, from house to house, and literally carried home the truth of heaven to the hearths and hearts of the Ephesians.” (p. 270)​—For an explanation of rendering the Greek expression katʼ oiʹkous (lit., “according to houses”), see study note on Ac 5:42.