where we found brethren, and were invited to stay with them seven days. And so we went toward Rome.
Parallel translations
- WEB where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.
- KJV Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.
- BSB There we found some brothers who invited us to spend the week with them. And so we came to Rome.
- NASB There we found some brothers and sisters, and were invited to stay with them for seven days; and that is how we came to Rome.
- NLT There we found some believers, who invited us to spend a week with them. And so we came to Rome.
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Quick answer
At Puteoli Paul finds fellow Christians and stays a week before reaching Rome. The church already exists ahead of the apostle's arrival.
Overview
Believers at Puteoli welcome Paul's company for seven days, evidence that the gospel had spread to Italy before Paul came. Even as a prisoner he enjoys the fellowship of the saints. Luke's terse 'So we came to Rome' marks the climactic reaching of the destination foretold to Paul (Acts 23:11).
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- Gen 7:4In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
- Acts 21:4Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
- Acts 19:1While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.
- Acts 20:6We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
- Acts 21:7–8When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers, and stayed with them one day.
- Gen 8:10–12He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
- Acts 9:42–43And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
- John 21:23This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”
- Matt 10:11Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.
- Ps 119:63I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
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