7And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.
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Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)We may observe here, I. How much ado Paul had to get clear from Ephesus, intimated in the first words of the chapter, after we had gotten from them , that is, were drawn from them as by violence. It was a force put upon both sides; Paul was loth to leave them, and they were loth to part with him, and yet there was no remedy, but so it must be. When good people are taken away by death, they are, as…
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