When we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.
Parallel translations
- WEB When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers, and stayed with them one day.
- KJV And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.
- NKJV And when we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, greeted the brethren, and stayed with them one day.
- NASB When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and after greeting the brothers and sisters, we stayed with them for a day.
- NLT The next stop after leaving Tyre was Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed for one day.
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Quick answer
From Tyre they sail to Ptolemais, greet the believers there, and stay one day. The gospel community appears in yet another port.
Overview
Ptolemais (ancient Accho) hosts another body of believers whom Paul's company greets in fellowship. Even a single day's stay is given to encouraging the brothers and sisters. The presence of churches at each stop shows how widely the gospel had already spread along the eastern Mediterranean coast.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Heb 13:24Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.
- Acts 12:20Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their region depended on the king’s country for food.
- Acts 21:10After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
- 1 Sam 13:10Just as he finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel arrived, and Saul went out to greet him.
- Matt 5:47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same?
- Acts 25:13After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.
- Acts 21:19Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
- Acts 28:12Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.
- Acts 18:22When Paul had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church at Jerusalem. Then he went down to Antioch.
- 1 Sam 10:4They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from their hands.
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