There is a marked contrast between the meager information of the previous section and the detail that characterizes the remainder of the journey now that the “we passages” have resumed. It includes in this section a description of a “church service” in Troas.
20:7 On the eve of the delegates’ departure from Troas, they met with the local Christians for a “service.” Luke allows us a glimpse of what was probably a typical meeting of Christians in these early days of the church. First, their purpose was to break bread. We should probably interpret this in the light of verse 11, where the best manuscripts read the definite article in the phrase, “having broken the bread.” The reference, then, is almost certainly to the bread of the Lord’s Supper (see disc. on 2:42) and the full sense of what…