Acts 28:14
where, having found brothers, we were invited to stay with them seven days. And so we went toward Rome.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 7:4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the ground.
Psalms 119:63I am a companion of all those who fear thee, and of those who observe thy precepts.
John 21:23This saying therefore went forth among the brothers, that that disciple does not die. And yet Jesus did not say to him, that he does not die, but, If I want him to remain until I come, what is it to thee?
Acts 19:1And it came to pass while Apollos was at Corinth, for Paul, having passed through the upper regions, to come to Ephesus. And having found some disciples,
Acts 21:4And having found disciples (we remained there seven days) who said to Paul through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.
Matthew Henry on Acts 28:12-17
Paul at Rome. 11 And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux. 12 And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days. 13 And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli: 14 Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome. 15 And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as… Read the whole commentary →