Paul Pauses
• 1 min. read • grade level: 8
Perhaps Paul had some inkling of the storm that lay ahead of him in Jerusalem. Whatever the case, Paul cuts across the peninsula while Luke and the rest sail around the tip. Acts 20:1414And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene. (Acts 20:14) reads as though Paul arrived after the rest. Acts 20:44And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus. (Acts 20:4) gives quite a list of traveling companions that must have accompanied Luke. Paul takes a break from the group to walk and be alone—no doubt alone with the Lord. We need to make that same commitment to find time away from the multitude in order to spend time with our Savior. Here’s what the Lord Jesus did, “When He had sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, He was there alone” (Matthew 14:2323And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone. (Matthew 14:23)).