Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 4. Not go up to Jerusalem. Saint Paul says in the foregoing chapter that he was pressed by the Holy Ghost to go to Jerusalem; and do these prophets now advise him to stay away, and disobey the inspiration? No: their dissuasion was not the effect of inspiration, but the expression of their tenderness and affection for him, which made them fear what they saw he was going to endure. D. Carthus.—Hence Saint Paul disregarded their entreaties, as well as the imminent dangers that every where stared him in the face. See his heroic answer to the melting entreaties of the faithful of Cæsarea, and their final acquiescence: “the will of the Lord be done.” Infr. verse 14.