After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.
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After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.
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And when we had taken oure leave one of another we toke shyppe and they returned home agayne.
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Then when we had embraced one another, we tooke ship, and they returned home.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Acts 21:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- John 19:27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
- John 1:11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
- John 7:53 Everyone went to his own house,
- John 16:32 Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
- 2 Corinthians 2:13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 6 And when we had taken our leave one…
6 And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.
Ver. 6. We took ship] Leaving them on shore: we shall one day meet, and never more be separated. O dieculam illam, &c. Euge, Deo sit laus et gloria, quod iam instet horula illa gratissima, {a} O that day! O that joy! Castigemus mores et moras. (Bernard.) Let us ripen apace, and hasten to that heavenly home, that glorious panegyris and general assembly, Heb 12:23.
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{a} Greserus moribundus. Melch. Adam.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Had taken our leave one of another; as Act…
Had taken our leave one of another; as Act 20:1, embracing one another at their parting.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when we had taken our leave one of…
And when we had taken our leave one of another,.... The Alexandrian copy reads, "having prayed, we saluted one another"; with a kiss, as in Act 20:37 and so parted:
we took ship; or went aboard the ship,
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and they returned home again; to their own houses, as the Syriac version renders it; for by "their own", as it is in the Greek text, cannot be meant their families, their wives, and children, for these were along with them, but their habitations; see Joh 16:32.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. Taken - leave] ασπασαμενοι; Having given each…
Verse 6. Taken - leave] ασπασαμενοι; Having given each other the kiss of peace, as was the constant custom of the Jews and primitive Christians.
They returned home] That is, the men, their wives, and their children.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. The best text requires here for the last…
6. The best text requires here for the last clause, “and we went on board the ship, but they returned home again.” There is nothing in the Greek to tell us whether the ship was the same in which they had come, or not.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) We took ship.—Literally, we embarked in the ship.…
(6) We took ship.—Literally, we embarked in the ship. The article probably, though not necessarily, indicates that they went in the same ship that had brought them, and which, after discharging her cargo at Tyre, was now bound for Cæsarea.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And bade each other farewell; and we went on…
And bade each other farewell; and we went on board the ship, but, etc., for and when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and, etc., A.V. and T.R. The ajpaspazesqai of the R.T. occurs nowhere else, except in Himerius in the fourth century after Christ. Went on board; ejpebhmev eijv, the same phrase as ejpibainein eijv JIerousalhm in ver. 5.
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain See notes on verse 5
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