กิจการ 20:35
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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Study Note
Paul's citation — 'It is more blessed to give than to receive' — is remarkable as the only instance in the New Testament where a saying of Jesus is preserved outside the gospels, appearing here as part of Paul's farewell address to the Ephesian elders. The logion's absence from the canonical gospels is a reminder that early Christian communities possessed oral traditions not fully captured in written form, consistent with John 21:25's acknowledgment that much was not recorded. The context is Paul's pattern of manual labour (verse 34) as a model of non-exploitative ministry — his financial self-sufficiency enabled him to give rather than demand, embodying the principle he quotes. The verse became foundational for early Christian generosity ethics and for the theology of ministerial vocation as service rather than benefice.
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In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'
In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
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