Acts 20:34

Verse 34. Yea, ye yourselves know. By your own acquaintance with my manner of life. In Corinth he had lived and laboured with Apollos, See Barnes "Ac 18:3"; and he refers elsewhere to the fact that he had supported himself, in part at least, by his own labour, 1 Co 4:12 1 Th 2:9; 2 Th 3:8. We may hence learn that it is no discredit to a minister to labour. Whatever it may be to a people who put him under a necessity to toil for his support, yet the example of Paul shows that a man should rejoice in the privilege of preaching the gospel, even if it is done while he is obliged to resort to labour for his daily bread.