Acts 20:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.

And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios - now Scio: one of the most beautiful of those islands between which and the coast the sail is so charming. They appear not to have touched at it.

And the next day we arrived at, х parebalomen (G3846) eis (G1519)] - rather (as Humphry renders it) 'pushed across'

Samos - another island coming quite close to the mainland, and about as far south of Chios as it is south of Lesbos.

And tarried at Trogyllium - an anchorage on the projecting mainland, not more than a mile from the southern extremity of the island of Samos.

And the next day we came to Miletus - on the mainland, the ancient capital of Ionia, near the mouth of the Maeander.

Acts 20:15

15 And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.