Resullerin 20:34

Ki̇tap (Turkish Bible)

34 Siz de bilirsiniz ki, bu eller hem benim, hem de benimle birlikte olanların gereksinmelerini karşılamak için hizmet etmiştir.

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that these: Acts 18:3, 1 Corinthians 4:12, 1 Thessalonians 2:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:9

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:15 - I have not 1 Kings 18:13 - what I did 2 Kings 6:2 - and take thence Job 23:11 - My foot Proverbs 31:20 - she reacheth Matthew 20:27 - whosoever John 13:29 - that John 21:3 - I go Romans 12:11 - slothful Romans 12:13 - Distributing 1 Corinthians 9:6 - have 1 Corinthians 9:15 - I have 2 Corinthians 6:4 - necessities 2 Corinthians 11:7 - in 2 Corinthians 11:27 - weariness Ephesians 4:28 - labour Philippians 4:17 - because 1 Thessalonians 2:3 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:10 - witnesses 1 Peter 5:2 - not for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, you yourselves know,.... So far was the apostle from desiring to have other men's money, or to wear their apparel, or to eat their bread, that he could appeal to these elders for the truth of it, they having been eyewitnesses of it:

that these hands have ministered unto my necessities; meaning, that he had wrought with his hands, which he then held up, or stretched out, at tent making, along with Aquila and Priscilla, at Ephesus, as he had done before at Corinth, Acts 18:2 and therewith supplied himself with necessaries for food and clothing; for though he had a power, as a minister of the Gospel, to forbear working, and to insist upon a maintenance from the churches, yet in some cases, and in some places, he chose rather to forego that, lest he should either any ways hinder the progress of the Gospel at the first preaching of it, or be burdensome to the churches, or give the false teachers any handle against him; and he not only supported himself in this way, but assisted others also:

and to them that were with me; as Luke, Timothy, and others; see Acts 20:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yea, ye yourselves know - By your own acquaintance with my manner of life. In Corinth he had lived and labored with Apollos (note, Acts 18:3); and he refers elsewhere to the fact that he had supported himself, in part at least, by his own labor, 1Co 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8. We may hence learn that it is no discredit to a minister to labor. Whatever it may be to a people who put him under a necessity to toil for his support, yet the example of Paul shows that a man should rejoice in the privilege of preaching the gospel, even if it is done while he is obliged to resort to labor for his daily bread. It is well when a minister of the gospel can make an appeal to his people like this of Paul, and say, “I have coveted no man’s gold, or silver, or apparel.” Every minister should so live that he can make this appeal to their own consciences of the sincerity and disinterestedness of his labors from the pulpit; or when called to separate from them as Paul did; or when on a dying bed. Every minister of the gospel, when be comes to lie down to die, will desire to be able to make this appeal, and to leave a solemn testimony there, that it was not for gold, or ease, or fame, that he toiled in the ministerial office. How much more influence will such a man have than he who has been worldly-minded; he who has sought to become rich; and he, the only memorials of whose life is, that he has sought “the fleece, not the flock” - that he has gained the property, not the souls of people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 34. These hands have ministered, &c.] It was neither "sin nor discredit" for the apostle to work to maintain himself, when the circumstances of the Church were such that it could not support him. Still many eminent ministers of God are obliged to support themselves and their families, at least in part, in the same way, while indefatigably testifying the Gospel of the grace of God. Whatever it may be to the people, it is no cause of reproach to the minister, to be obliged thus to employ himself.