Acts 20:35 meaning and explanation
In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Acts 20:35, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul is speaking to the elders of the church at Ephesus, gathered with him at Miletus, as he reviews his years of ministry there and prepares to leave for Jerusalem. He points to his own manual labor, making tents, as the pattern for helping the weak, and he quotes a saying of Jesus, "It is more blessed to give than to receive," which is not recorded in the four Gospels.
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