Acts 20:35

“I have showed you all things, etc.] Both as to doctrine and practice, and had set them an example how to behave in every point, and particularly in this: how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak; the sense of which is, that they should labour with their hands as he did, and so support the weak; either such who were weak in body, and unable to work and help themselves, and therefore should be helped, assisted, relieved, and supported by the labours of others, that were able; or the weak in faith, and take nothing of them, lest they should think the preachers of the word sought only their own worldly advantage, and so they should be stumbled and fall from the truth: and to remember…”

“that so labouring--as I have done for others as well as myself. ye ought to support the weak to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he--"how Himself." said, It is more blessed to give than to receive--This golden saying, snatched from oblivion, and here added to the Church's abiding treasures, is apt to beget the wish that more of what issued from those Lips which "dropped as an honeycomb," had been preserved to us. But see on Joh 21:25.”

“I have showed you - I have taught you by instruction and example. I have not merely discoursed about it, but have showed you how to do it. All things - Or, in respect to all things. In everything that respects preaching and the proper mode of life, I have for three years set you an example, illustrating the design, nature, and duties of the office by my own self-denials and toil. How that - Or, that - ὅτι hoti. I have showed you that ye should by so laboring support the weak. So labouring - Laboring as I have done. Setting this example, and ministering in this way to the needs of others. To support the weak - To provide for the needs of the sick and feeble members of the flock, who are…”

“I have showed you - Bishops, by my example, all things - And this among the rest; that thus labouring - So far as the labours of your office allow you time; ye ought to help the weak - Those who are disabled by sickness, or any bodily infirmity, from maintaining themselves by their own labour. And to remember - Effectually, so as to follow it; the word which he himself said - Without doubt his disciples remembered many of his words which are not recorded. It is happier to give - To imitate God, and have him, as it were, indebted to us. Acts 20:37”

“20:35 ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’: This saying of Jesus is not recorded in the Gospels.”

“showed: Act 20:20, Act 20:27 how that: Isa 35:3; Rom 15:1; Co1 9:12; Co2 11:9, Co2 11:12, Co2 12:13; Eph 4:28; Th1 4:11; Th1 5:14; Heb 12:12, Heb 12:13, Heb 13:3 It is: Psa 41:1-3, Psa 112:5-9; Pro 19:17; Isa 32:8, Isa 58:7-12; Mat 10:8, Mat 25:34-40; Luk 14:12-14; Co2 8:9, Co2 9:6-12; Phi 4:17-20; Heb 13:16 Acts 20:36”