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Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents
16:1-12 The Collection for the Saints and Travel Plans. As Paul draws the letter to a close, his attention turns to the details of his future ministry as it involves the Corinthians.
16:1 Now concerning. Paul turns again to an issue raised in their letter to him. See note on 7:1. collection. This is Paul's collection of money for needy Jewish Christians in Jerusalem. (See Acts 24:17; Rom. 15:25-28, 31; 2 Corinthians 8-9.) Paul brought relief aid to the church in Judea more than once. (See Acts 11:27-30, to which Gal. 2:10 may refer.) On the theme of generosity, see note on Acts 2:45.
16:2 first day of every week. A Jewish expression for Sunday, and similar to the phrase used in the Gospels to describe the day of the week on which Jesus rose from the dead (Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:2; Luke 24:1; John 20:1). This shows that Christians gathered for worship on Sunday, not Saturday (cf. Acts 20:7; Rev. 1:10), in order to acknowledge the crucial importance of Christ's resurrection.
16:3 Paul would send the money with several representatives chosen by the Corinthian church, showing that he took care to prevent even an appearance of misuse of funds.
16:5 Corinth was located in the Roman province of Achaia, also called Greece, and just south of the Roman province of Macedonia. Paul describes a route that would take him from his present location in Ephesus (v. 8), north, probably to Troas, across the Aegean Sea to Macedonia, and south, through Achaia, to Corinth. (See Acts 19:21; 20:1-3.)
16:8 Pentecost. The "Feast of Weeks," described in Lev. 23:15-22, was a grain harvest celebration that culminated and concluded after Passover. Paul was probably writing, then, in the spring between Passover and this final day of Pentecost.
16:10 When Timothy comes. Timothy is apparently already on his way to Corinth. (See 4:17 and Acts 19:22.)
