And the people were greatly relieved to take the boy home alive.
The disciples gathered on the first day of the week because they must worship God together, not alone; this is their constant custom in all the churches. The Lord's day belongs to Christ and testifies to His resurrection; it is the court-day of our King, where all His tenants owe suit and service.
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Commenting on Acts 20:7-12
And we went before to ship,.... That is, Luke, the writer of this history, and the rest of the apostle's company, went before him to a ship, which lay at Troas, and went aboard it: and sailed unto Assos; a city of Aeolia, or Mysia; and is said by Pliny to be the same with Apollonia; and which he places on the sea shore, where...
Verse 12. Not a little comforted. By the fact that he was alive; perhaps also strengthened by the evidence that a miracle had been wrought.