When Paul had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church at Jerusalem. Then he went down to Antioch.
Parallel translations
- WEB When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.
- KJV And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
- NKJV And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up and greeted the church, he went down to Antioch.
- NASB When he had landed in Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch.
- NLT The next stop was at the port of Caesarea. From there he went up and visited the church at Jerusalem and then went back to Antioch.
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Quick answer
Paul landed at Caesarea, greeted the church, then went down to Antioch, his sending base.
Overview
Going up and greeting the assembly is widely understood to mean visiting the Jerusalem church before returning to Antioch. This brings his second missionary journey to a close where it began, at Antioch in Syria. The pattern of returning to report and rest among the sending church models accountability and connection within the wider body of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Acts 8:40But Philip appeared at Azotus and traveled through that region, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
- Acts 11:11Just then three men sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying.
- Acts 10:1At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.
- Acts 25:1Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
- Acts 13:1Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.
- Acts 11:19–27Meanwhile those scattered by the persecution that began with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message only to Jews.
- Acts 15:23and sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.
- Acts 14:26From Attalia they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had just completed.
- Acts 25:9But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to stand trial before me on these charges?”
- Acts 15:35But Paul and Barnabas remained at Antioch, along with many others, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord.
- Acts 15:4On their arrival in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and apostles and elders, to whom they reported all that God had done through them.
- Acts 18:21–22But as he left, he said, “I will come back to you if God is willing.” And he set sail from Ephesus.
- Acts 21:17–19When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers welcomed us joyfully.
- Acts 15:30So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they assembled the congregation and delivered the letter.
- Acts 10:24The following day he arrived in Caesarea, where Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
- Acts 23:23Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.
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