20When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;


In Context

17 Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care about any of these things.

18 Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

19 He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

20 When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;

21 but taking his leave of them, and saying, |I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills,| he set sail from Ephesus.

22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

Acts 18:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:20When they desired [him] to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:20When they asked him to spend more time with them, he declined.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:20And when they desired him, that he would tarry a longer time, he consented not;

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:20And when they asked him to abide a longer time, he consented not;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:20And when they asked him that he would remain for a longer time with them he did not accede,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:20And when they asked him to abide a longer time, he consented not;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:20When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:20and they having requested him to remain a longer time with them, he did not consent,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:20When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;