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Acts 20:24 "But I count my life as of no value, as long as I can finish my race and the ministry of testifying tot he good news of God's transforming initiative that I received from the Lord Jesus" (The Kingdom of God Version)
20:24 Paul put his trials in perspective by declaring that he considered his life of no value. What was important was that he would finish the course that had been set for him by the Lord Jesus, which involved testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
Sills, M. D. (2017). Opportunities and Challenges in Global Missions. In E. A. Blum & T. Wax (Eds.), CSB Study Bible: Notes (p. 1757). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
24. But none of these things move me, neither, &c.—In this noble expression of absolute dedication to the service of Christ and preparedness for the worst that could befall him in such a cause, note (1) his jealousy for the peculiar character of his mission, as immediately from Christ Himself on which all the charges against him turned; (2) the burden of that Gospel which he preached—Grace; it was “the Gospel of the Grace of God.”
Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Vol. 2, p. 209). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
All he knows is that it isn’t going to get any easier, and in that, at least, he was absolutely correct. Those in Ephesus who had watched him through a sustained ministry knew very well that he meant it when he said what he did in verse 24, which stands as a model, challenging but also strangely beckoning, to all who work for the gospel: ‘I don’t reckon my life at any value, so long as I can finish my course, and the ministry which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to bear witness to the gospel of God’s grace.’ That witness, as much by what Paul was and did as by what he said, stands to this day.
Wright, T. (2008). Acts for Everyone, Part 2: Chapters 13-28 (p. 133). London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Even as the storm clouds gathered during the last chapters of Luke’s Gospel, the clouds gather for Paul. We know that his life will come to some somber end, even though the true disciple is able to say that “I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself,” because the only thing significant about his life is his fidelity to “the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God” (v. 24).
Willimon, W. H. (1988). Acts (p. 156). Atlanta, GA: John Knox Press.
20:24 Paul put his trials in perspective by declaring that he considered his life of no value. What was important was that he would finish the course that had been set for him by the Lord Jesus, which involved testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
Sills, M. D. (2017). Opportunities and Challenges in Global Missions. In E. A. Blum & T. Wax (Eds.), CSB Study Bible: Notes (p. 1757). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
24. But none of these things move me, neither, &c.—In this noble expression of absolute dedication to the service of Christ and preparedness for the worst that could befall him in such a cause, note (1) his jealousy for the peculiar character of his mission, as immediately from Christ Himself on which all the charges against him turned; (2) the burden of that Gospel which he preached—Grace; it was “the Gospel of the Grace of God.”
Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Vol. 2, p. 209). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
All he knows is that it isn’t going to get any easier, and in that, at least, he was absolutely correct. Those in Ephesus who had watched him through a sustained ministry knew very well that he meant it when he said what he did in verse 24, which stands as a model, challenging but also strangely beckoning, to all who work for the gospel: ‘I don’t reckon my life at any value, so long as I can finish my course, and the ministry which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to bear witness to the gospel of God’s grace.’ That witness, as much by what Paul was and did as by what he said, stands to this day.
Wright, T. (2008). Acts for Everyone, Part 2: Chapters 13-28 (p. 133). London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Even as the storm clouds gathered during the last chapters of Luke’s Gospel, the clouds gather for Paul. We know that his life will come to some somber end, even though the true disciple is able to say that “I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself,” because the only thing significant about his life is his fidelity to “the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God” (v. 24).
Willimon, W. H. (1988). Acts (p. 156). Atlanta, GA: John Knox Press.
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