`He dismissed the assembly' (Acts 19:41).

(2) The following inscription, which is dated A.D. 55, and therefore corresponds closely to the period of Acts 19,

shows how accurate Luke has been in his record concerning the town-clerk:

`Apollonius to his father ... and to his mother ... consecrated the enclosure and this monument ... having filled the

offices of clerk at this market, town-clerk, and high priest, and having been in charge of the record office.

Erected on the 28th of the month Demarchusius in the year 13. He also served the senate by means of assessors

in the time of the proconsul Paulus'.

While much has necessarily been left unsaid, we trust that the structure of the passage and the few archaeological

notes that have been given, will make the story of Acts 19 the clearer, and so intensify the reader's interest in the

work of the great apostle to the Gentiles.

Continuing with our study of the apostle's third great missionary journey, we now leave Ephesus and accompany

him on his way towards Jerusalem, and eventually Rome. We have already seen from the structure (Acts 19:21 to

21:39) given on page 246 that the record of this journey from Ephesus to Jerusalem is in six sections, and that the

visit to Troas (B 20:4-16) is the second of these. We must now fill in the detail of this second section before

proceeding further.

D 20:4,5.

These going before (Paul and a few others went round by Macedonia - see notes).

E 20:5,6.  k Tarried at Troas.

l  Sailed away from Philippi.

m After days of unleavened bread.

n Paul preached on first day of week.

F 20:7-12.

o Ready to depart on the morrow.

p A young man, taken up dead.

q His life is in him. Trouble not.

n Paul talked a long while, till break of day.

o So departed.

p The young man, brought alive.

q Not a little comforted.

D 20:13,14. Paul, minded to go afoot. Met at Assos.

E 20:15,16. k Tarried at Trogyllium.

l  Sailed by Ephesus.

m The day of Pentecost.

Were it not for the information to be found in the epistles, we should know very little of the eventful period

covered by the opening verses of Acts 20:

`And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go

into Macedonia. And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into

Greece' (Acts 20:1,2).

Before the tumult, Paul had intended to leave Ephesus at Pentecost (1 Cor. 16:8), and had instructed Titus to

meet him at Troas (2 Cor. 2:12,13). From the writings of Cicero, and the chronology of Wieseler, we learn that a

voyage from Ephesus to Athens occupied fourteen days, and to Corinth one day longer. While awaiting with some

anxiety the coming of Titus, Paul occupied himself in preaching the gospel (2 Cor. 2:12), but he adds:

`I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence

into Macedonia' (2 Cor. 2:13).