Acts - 21:2

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2 Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.

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Explanation and meaning of Acts 21:2.

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And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.
And when we had found a ship sailing over to Phenice, we went aboard, and set forth.
And having found a ship passing over into Phoenicia, we went on board and sailed;
and having found a ship passing over to Phenicia, having gone on board, we sailed,
Finding a ship bound for Phoenicia, we went on board and put to sea.
And as there was a ship going to Phoenicia, we went in it.
And when we had found a ship sailing across to Phoenicia, climbing aboard, we set sail.
where we found a ship crossing to Phoenicia, and went on board and set sail.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Unto Phenicia - See the notes on Acts 11:19. Phoenicia was on their way to Jerusalem.
Set forth - Sailed.

Phoenicia - A part of Syria. See the note on Acts 11:19.

And finding a ship sailing over unto Phoenicia,.... For it seems that the ship they went aboard at Assos, Acts 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 Acts 11:19.
we went aboard; the said ship:
and set forth; on the voyage.

And finding a ship--their former one going no farther, probably.
to Phœnica--(See on Acts 11:19).
went abroad--One would almost think this extracted from a journal of the voyage, so graphic are its details.

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