Acts - 21:6



6 After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.

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Explanation and meaning of Acts 21:6.

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And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.
and we went on board the ship, but they returned home again.
And when we had bid one another farewell, we took ship; and they returned home.
And having embraced one another, we went on board ship, and they returned home.
and bade each other farewell; and we went on board the ship, but they returned home again.
and having embraced one another, we embarked in the ship, and they returned to their own friends.
we took leave of one another; and we went on board, while they returned home.
We said our last words to one another, and got into the ship, and they went back to their houses.
And when we had said farewell to one another, we climbed aboard the ship. And they returned to their own.
and then said goodbye to one another; after which we went on board, and they returned home.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Taken - leave - Ασπασαμενοι; Having given each other the kiss of peace, as was the constant custom of the Jews and primitive Christians.
They returned home - That is, the men, their wives, and their children.

And when we had taken our leave one of another,.... The Alexandrian copy reads, "having prayed, we saluted one another"; with a kiss, as in Acts 20:37 and so parted:
we took ship; or went aboard the ship,
and they returned home again; to their own houses, as the Syriac version renders it; for by "their own", as it is in the Greek text, cannot be meant their families, their wives, and children, for these were along with them, but their habitations; see John 16:32.

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