2 Timothy 4:13 meaning and explanation

When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments.

2 Timothy 4:13, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul writes from a Roman prison, near the end of his life, asking Timothy to bring three ordinary things from Troas: a cloak, scrolls, and especially parchments. The Greek word for cloak, phailones, refers to a heavy traveling garment, likely a circular blanket with a hole for the head, which Paul needed as winter approached.

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