Acts 21:7

Modern

When we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.

Traditional

And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.

Literal

And having completed the voyage from Tyre, we came down to Ptolemais; and having greeted the brothers, we stayed one day with them.

Latin

Nos vero navigatione expleta a Tyro descendimus Ptolemaidam: et salutatis fratribus, mansimus die una apud illos.

Greek

English

When we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.

Paul visited Ptolemais, an important city on the coast of the Mediterranean, as he made his way from Tyre to Caesarea.

This “we” passage (see study notes on 16:10; 20:5–15) covers Paul’s journey from Miletus to Jerusalem at the close of the third missionary journey.

Theme notes and profiles

Hebrews 13:24
Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.
Acts 28:12
Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.
Acts 25:13
After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.
Acts 18:22
When Paul had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church at Jerusalem. Then he went down to Antioch.
1 Samuel 10:4
They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from their hands.
1 Samuel 13:10
Just as he finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel arrived, and Saul went out to greet him.
Acts 12:20
Now 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.
Matthew 5:47
And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same?
Acts 21:10
After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
Acts 21:19
Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Acco: A seaport in Asher, also called Ptolemais Tyre: A major Phoenician port city, known for its trade