1 Corinthians 16:5-9
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5 I shall come to you after I pass through Macedonia (for I am going to pass through Macedonia),(A) 6 and perhaps I shall stay or even spend the winter with you, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go. 7 For I do not wish to see you now just in passing, but I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.(B) 8 [a]I shall stay in Ephesus(C) until Pentecost, 9 because a door has opened for me wide and productive for work, but there are many opponents.(D)
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- 16:8 In Ephesus until Pentecost: this tells us the place from which he wrote the letter and suggests he may have composed it about Easter time (cf. 1 Cor 5:7–8).
Acts 19:21
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Paul’s Plans. 21 When this was concluded, Paul made up his mind to travel through Macedonia and Achaia, and then to go on to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must visit Rome also.”(A)
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