Acts 20:3

There he spent three months , and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria , he decided to return through Macedonia .

where he stayed three months. Because some Jews had plotted against him just as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.

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.