2 Timothy 4:13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Timothy 4:9-15

Here are divers particular matters which Paul mentions to Timothy, now at the closing of the epistle. 1. He bids him hasten to him, if possible (2Ti. 4:9): So thy diligence to come shortly to me. For Timothy was an evangelist, one who was not a fixed pastor of any one place, but attended the motions of the apostles, to build upon their foundation. Paul wanted Timothy's company and help; and the reason he gives is because several had left him (2Ti. 4:10); one from an ill principle, namely,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 4:9-15

4:9-15 Do your best to come and see me soon. Demas has deserted me, because he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Luke alone is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful in service. I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus. When you come bring with you the cloak which I left behind at Troas at Corpus' house, and bring the books, especially the parchments. Alexander, the coppersmith, did me a... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 4:9-15

The Gentile Of Whom All Spoke Well After Paul has spoken of the man who was the deserter, he goes on to speak of the man who was faithful unto death. "Luke alone is with me," he says. We know very little about Luke, and yet even from that little he emerges as one of the loveliest characters in the New Testament. (i) One thing we know by implication--Luke accompanied Paul on his last journey to Rome and to prison. He was the writer of the Book of Acts. Now there are certain passages of Acts... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 4:9-15

There is still another name with an untold, yet thrilling, story behind it in this roll. The Man Who Redeemed Himself Paul urges Timothy to bring Mark with him "for he is profitable to me for the ministry." The word ministry is not used in its narrower sense of the ministry of the Church but in its wider sense of service. "Bring Mark," says Paul, "for he is very useful in service." As E. F. Scott puts it; "Bring Mark, for he can turn his hand to anything." Or, as we might put it in our own... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 4:9-15

Helpers And A Hinderer And A Last Request So the list of names goes on. Of Crescens we know nothing at all. Titus was another of Paul's most faithful lieutenants. "My true child," Paul calls him ( Titus 1:4 ). When the trouble with the Church at Corinth had been worrying him, Titus had been one of Paul's emissaries in the struggle to mend things ( 2 Corinthians 2:13 ; 2 Corinthians 7:6 ; 2 Corinthians 7:13 ; 2 Corinthians 12:18 ). Tychicus had been entrusted with the delivery of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 4:13

The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus ,.... About the word here rendered a "cloak", interpreters are not agreed: some take it for a garment, and about this they differ; some would have it to be a dignified robe, such as the Roman consuls and senators of Rome wore; which is not likely, this being not suitable to the apostle's character, state, and circumstances. Others take it to be a courser and meaner garment, wore in cold and rainy weather, to preserve from the inclementencies of it;... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 4:13

The cloak that I left at Troas - Τον φελονην is by several translated bag or portmanteau; and it is most likely that it was something of this kind, in which he might carry his clothes, books, and travelling necessaries. What the books were we cannot tell, it is most likely they were his own writings; and as to the parchments, they were probably the Jewish Scriptures and a copy of the Septuagint. These he must have had at hand at all times. The books and parchments now sent for could not be... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 4:13

Verse 13 Bring the cloak which I left at Troas As to the meaning of the word φελόνη, (201) commentators are not agreed; for some think that it is a chest or box for containing books, and others that it is a garment used by travelers, and fitted for defending against cold and rain. Whether the one interpretation or the other be adopted, how comes it that Paul should give orders to have either a garment or a chest brought to him from a place so distant, as if there were not workmen, or as if... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Timothy 4:9-22

"Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth clave unto her." In this little social incident of some three thousand years ago, which may have passed at the time with little observation, we have a pithy and pregnant example set before us, with the usual searching wisdom of Holy Scripture, of the difference between friendship and friendship, religion and religion, according as they lie deep in the roots of the heart or merely lie on the surface. The contrast between Demas and Luke affords... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Timothy 4:9-22

Personal. I. TIMOTHY . 1 . Requested to come to Rome. "Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me." His formerly expressed longing to see him ( 2 Timothy 1:4 ) is now turned into a formal request to come, and to come shortly, unto him. In the diligence he was to show in this there is not the idea of pure haste, but of the utmost haste that was compatible with the interests of Christ at Ephesus. Certain arrangements would require to be made, not merely for his journey, but for the... read more

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