2 Timothy 4:9-13
Paul Wants to Read His Parchments and Scrolls
9 Do your best to come to me quickly, 10 for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry. 12 I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. 13 When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments.
Paul told Timothy that he was with Luke, other had left...He ask that Mark bring him to help him with his ministry when they come...Mark could help Paul in his work there...Paul had sent Tychicus to Ephesus...When he was in Troas, he had left his coat there with Carpus...So when you come, bring it to me...Also, bring my books...The books written on parchment are the ones he needed...Paul had developed wisdom over the years with the knowledge he had obtained from his experiences and his books and the teachings of Jesus, which he wrote about in his epistles... It is believed that Paul had written this letter to Timothy during his second imprisonment in Rome and shortly before his martyrdom...
Baptist Preacher Charles Spurgeon tells us to read books and to find wisdom: Give yourself unto reading...The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted...He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own...You need to read...We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying...You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your LORD and Master’s service...Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.”...Visit many good books, but live in the Bible...Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years...Wisdom is the right use of knowledge...To know is not to be wise...Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it...There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool...But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom...