John Gill's Exposition on Acts 21:2

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And finding a ship sailing over unto Phoenicia, etc.] For it seems that the ship they went aboard at Assos, (<442013>Acts 20:13) went no further, at least in the way the apostle was going, than Patara; but lighting on another ship, which was bound for Phoenicia, for the city of Tyre, which bordered on the land of Israel, and indeed originally belonged to Canaan; (see <441119>Acts 11:19). we went aboard; the said ship: and set forth; on the voyage.

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