🌊WEB · Acts 19:21

What does Acts 19:21 mean?

"Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”"

— Acts 19:21 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

18

Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

19

Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

20

So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.

21

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

22

Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

23

About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.

24

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

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