Acts 21:2
Finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we boarded it and set sail.
BSB
ASV
and having found a ship crossing over unto Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.
KJV
And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.
"Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia." Perhaps this ship had its anchorage here, in Patara; and they, not finding a ship departing for Caesarea, but finding a ship sailing to Phoenicia, set out on it and left Cyprus and Syria to the side, …
And finding a ship sailing over unto Phoenicia,.... For it seems that the ship they went aboard at Assos, Act 20:13 went no further, at least in the way the apostle was going, than Patara; but lighting on another ship, which was bound for Phoenicia, for the city of Tyre, which bordered on the land of Israel, and indeed originally belonged to Canaan; see Act 11:19. we went aboard; the said ship: and set forth; on the voyage.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Jonah 1:3Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went…
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Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, including the territory across from Joppa.
So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which is translated as Dorcas), who was always occupied with works of kindness and charity.
And Peter stayed for several days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.
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Acts 15:3Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.
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When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
But when our time there had ended, we set out on our journey. All the disciples, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city and knelt down on the beach to…
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Acts 27:6There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.
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After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.
