Acts 28:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.

Acts 28:12 —

Old words in this verse

tarry: — stay, wait.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-16)

We have here the progress of Paul’s voyage towards Rome, and his arrival there at length. A rough and dangerous voyage he had hitherto had, and narrowly escaped with his life; but after a storm comes a calm: the latter part of his voyage was easy and quiet. Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum, Tendimus ad Latium---- Through various hazards and events we move To Latium. Tendimus ad coelum. W…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12-13. landing at Syracuse--the ancient and celebrated capital of Sicily, on its eastern coast, about eighty miles, or a day’s sail, north from Malta. we tarried there three days--probably from the state of the wind. Doubtless Paul would wish to go ashore, to find out and break ground among the Jews and proselytes whom such a mercantile center would attract to it; and if this was allowed at the ou…