Acts 21:5

And when it came to pass for us to finish the days, having gone forth, we were departing, all accompanying us, with women and children, as far as outside the city. And having knelt on the beach we prayed.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.

In Context

4And having found disciples (we remained there seven days) who said to Paul through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.

6And having bid farewell to each other, we went up in the ship, and those men returned to their own things.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:11your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner who is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood to the drawer of thy water--

Joshua 24:15And if it seems evil to you to serve LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell. But as for me and my hou

2 Chronicles 20:13And all Judah stood before LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their sons.

Psalms 95:6O come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before LORD our maker.

Mark 1:40And a leper comes to him beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying to him, If thou will thou can make me clean.

Acts 15:3Indeed therefore, having been helped for the trip by the congregation, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles. And they caused great joy to all the brothers.

Matthew Henry on Acts 21:2-8

Paul's Voyage to Cæsarea; Paul's Arrival at Ptolemais. 1 And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara: 2 And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth. 3 Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden. 4 And finding disciples, we tarried there… Read the whole commentary →

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