Acts 20:34
Acts · New Testament · Chapter 20
“Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.”Acts 20:34
What Does Acts 20:34 Mean?
Acts 20:34 is found in the book of Acts, chapter 20, verse 34 of the New Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Key themes in this passage include Servanthood, and Compassion.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Acts 20:34 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Acts 18:3“And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.”Romans 12:13“Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.”1 Corinthians 4:12“And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:”Proverbs 31:20“She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.”Romans 12:11“Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;”2 Thessalonians 3:8“Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:”Acts 19:22“So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.”1 Corinthians 9:6“Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?”1 Corinthians 9:15“But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.”1 Thessalonians 2:9“For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.”Matthew 20:27“And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:”John 13:29“For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.”2 Corinthians 11:27“In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.”Ephesians 4:28“Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”1 Kings 18:13“Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?”2 Kings 6:2“Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.”Acts 19:29“And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.”2 Corinthians 11:7“Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?”John 21:3“Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.”2 Corinthians 6:4“But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,”
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