READ Acts 20 COMMENTARY: : 3      And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia. (1917 “laid wait” [epiboule] means plot, scheme, a (secret) scheme to do something; especially something wicked or illegal, a project or design, or a plan formed against one.) DEVOTION:  There are always those who don’t want the message of the LORD Jesus Christ to be taught or preached. They come in all forms. Here we have the Jewish people who don’t want any of their Jewish neighbors becoming believers in Christ. Their solution is to try to kill Paul who is preaching Christ. They don’t want to meet him in their synagogues or on the street to talk with him about his believes to try to prove him…