John Gill's Exposition on Acts 21:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, etc.] From Ptolemais, as Sopater, Aristarchus, Secundus, Timotheus, Tychicus, Trophimus, and Luke, the writer of this history; (see <442004>Acts 20:4) and came unto Caesarea; not Caesarea Philippi, mentioned in (<401613>Matthew 16:13) but that Caesarea which was formerly called Strato’s tower, and was a very good sea port; (see <440840>Acts 8:40, 9:30, 10:1, 18:22). and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist; not a writer of a Gospel, but a preacher of the Gospel, and perhaps not an ordinary one, but was one of those spoken of in (<490411>Ephesians 4:11) which was an office inferior to an apostle, and yet above an ordinary pastor and teacher; this man, very likely, was the same that taught in Samaria, and baptized the eunuch, and who after that settled at Caesarea; (see <440840>Acts 8:40). which was one of the seven; of the seven deacons of the church at Jerusalem, (<440605>Acts 6:5) and abode with him; so long as they continued at Caesarea.

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