The Christians in Palestine, from various causes, suffered from poverty. Paul awakened an interest in them among the Gentile churches, and made pecuniary collections in their behalf (Ac 24:17; Ro 15:25-26; 1Co 16:1-3; 2Co 8:9; Ga 2:10).
Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation:
But now I go to Jerusalem, taking help for the saints. For it has been the good pleasure of those of Macedonia and Achaia to send a certain amount of money for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.
Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do.
Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain