Acts 21:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.

And when we had finished our course ('And having completed the passage')

From Tyre, we came to Ptolemais - so called from one of the Ptolemies, when it belonged to Egypt; anciently called Accho ( Judges 1:31), now Acca, and by Europeans, Jean d'Acre, or Acre, the principal seaport town of Syria, lying about thirty miles south of Tyre. Its military importance has made it a coveted prize from age to age.

And saluted the brethren - disciples probably gathered, as at Tyre, on the occasion mentioned in Acts 11:19 ; "and abode with them one day."

Land Journey to Caesarea-the Stay with Philip the Evangelist-Pictureof his Family-Arrival of Agabus, and his Prediction regarding Paul -- The unsuccessful Attempt to Dissuade him from Going to Jerusalem (21:8-14)

Acts 21:7

7 And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.