Acts 21:1

We said good-bye to them and left. The Greek implies "tearing themselves away," a separation both difficult and painful. We came to Cos. A small island, forty miles south of Miletus. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, was born there. Rhodes. Fifty miles further south. The Colossus of Rhodes was one of the wonders of the world, but an earthquake had brought it to the ground by this date. Patara. On the coast of Lycia, some thirty miles west of Myra. His ship ended its route here, and he found another ship which was going to Phoenicia (see Tyre). Where we could see Cyprus. He had worked there on his first tour of missions (Acts 13:4-13). On to Syria. The Romans used Syria as the general name for Phoenicia, Palestine, and Antioch. We went ashore at Tyre. Tyre was a city of Phoenicia. "It's most important ruins now lie beneath the sea and can be seen through its waters." We found some believers there. They did not "stumble on them," but knew they were there (Acts 15:3). And stayed with them a week. This seems to be Paul's usual plan of action (compare Acts 20:6; Acts 28:14). It implies he would wait to have one solemn meeting with them on the Lord's Day, and eat the Lord's Supper [Holy Meal] with them. By the power of the Spirit. They warned him of the dangers waiting for him at Jerusalem. This does not contradict Acts 20:22, since he himself speaks of the fact that the same Holy Spirit had warned him in the next verse of that chapter. We all knelt down. The whole congregation, men, women, and children. They prayed together, then Paul and the others went on board the ship.