Acts 21:3

Now when we had discovered Cyprus Rev. Ver."And when we had come in sight of." "Discover" has now acquired the special sense of "finding for the first time." On Cyprus, see notes on Acts 13:4 seqq.

we … Syria This was the general name for the whole district lying along the Mediterranean from Cilicia down to Egypt.

Tyre One of the chief ports of Phœnicia, and a city of very great antiquity. It was built partly on the mainland and partly on an island, and is often mentioned both in Scripture and in profane literature. It is noticed as a strongly fortified city as early as Joshua 19:29. We read of its fame in the time of Solomon in connexion with the building of the temple, and Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, was the daughter of Ethbaal, called King of the Sidonians in Scripture, but in Josephus (Ant. viii. 13, 2) King of Tyre. The city was besieged by Shalmaneser and afterwards by Nebuchadnezzar, and was captured by Alexander the Great.

Christ went on one of his journeys from Galilee into the neighbourhood of Tyre, if not to the city itself, which was about 30 miles from Nazareth, and it must have been then in much the same condition as at this visit of St Paul.

there the ship, &c. And so most probably the further voyage to Ptolemais was made in a different vessel, this one going no farther.