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Wesley's New Testament

Acts 21:2

And finding a ship passing over to Phenicia, we went aboard and set sail.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commerce;   Luke;   Patara;   Paul;   Phenicia;   Thompson Chain Reference - Phoenicia;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Luke;   Lycia;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Acts, book of;   Lycia;   Phoenicia;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Luke-Acts, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Syrian Christians;   Worship of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Patara;   Phenicia;   Phoenicia;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Patara;   Ship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Luke;   Luke, Gospel of;   Phenice, Phenicia;   Phoenicia;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronology of the New Testament;   Patara;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Patara ;   Paul;   Phoenicia ;   Ship ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Phenice, Phenicia ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Patara;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pat'ara;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Commerce;   Phoenicia;   Set;   Syrophoenician;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we boarded and set sail.
King James Version (1611)
And finding a ship sailing ouer vnto Phenicea, wee went abroad, and set foorth.
King James Version
And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.
English Standard Version
And having found a ship crossing to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.
New American Standard Bible
and having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.
New Century Version
There we found a ship going to Phoenicia, so we went aboard and sailed away.
Amplified Bible
and after finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went on board and set sail.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.
Legacy Standard Bible
and having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.
Berean Standard Bible
Finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we boarded it and set sail.
Contemporary English Version
We found a ship going to Phoenicia, so we got on board and sailed off.
Complete Jewish Bible
On finding a ship that was crossing over to Phoenicia, we embarked and set sail.
Darby Translation
And having found a ship passing over into Phoenicia, we went on board and sailed;
Easy-to-Read Version
There we found a ship that was going to the area of Phoenicia. We got on the ship and sailed away.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And we found a ship that went ouer vnto Phenice, and went aboard, and set forth.
George Lamsa Translation
And we found there a ship sailing to Pheni''cia, and we went on board, and set forth.
Good News Translation
There we found a ship that was going to Phoenicia, so we went aboard and sailed away.
Lexham English Bible
And finding a ship that was crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and put out to sea.
Literal Translation
And finding a ship crossing over to Phoenice, going on board we set sail:
American Standard Version
and having found a ship crossing over unto Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.
Bible in Basic English
And as there was a ship going to Phoenicia, we went in it.
Hebrew Names Version
Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.
International Standard Version
There we found a ship going across to Phoenecia, so we went aboard and sailed away.
Etheridge Translation
and we found there a ship which was going to Punike, and we ascended into her and voyaged.
Murdock Translation
And we found there a ship going to Phenicia; and we entered it, and proceeded on.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when we had gotten a shippe that woulde sayle vnto Phenice, we went aboorde, and set foorth.
English Revised Version
and having found a ship crossing over unto Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.
World English Bible
Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.
Weymouth's New Testament
Finding a ship bound for Phoenicia, we went on board and put to sea.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne we founden a schip passinge ouer to Fenyce, we wenten vp in to it, and sailden forth.
Update Bible Version
and having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.
Webster's Bible Translation
And finding a ship sailing over to Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.
New English Translation
We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went aboard, and put out to sea.
New King James Version
And finding a ship sailing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.
New Living Translation
There we boarded a ship sailing for Phoenicia.
New Life Bible
There we found a ship that was going over to the country of Phoenicia. We got on it and went along.
New Revised Standard
When we found a ship bound for Phoenicia, we went on board and set sail.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, going on board, we set sail.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when we had found a ship sailing over to Phenice, we went aboard and set forth.
Revised Standard Version
And having found a ship crossing to Phoeni'cia, we went aboard, and set sail.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And we founde a shippe redy to sayle vnto Phenices and went a borde and set forthe.
Young's Literal Translation
and having found a ship passing over to Phenicia, having gone on board, we sailed,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan we founde a shippe ready to sayle vnto Phenices, we wente aborde and set forth.
Mace New Testament (1729)
where finding a vessel bound to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and put off.
Simplified Cowboy Version
We switched ships there and then went to Phoenicia.

Contextual Overview

1 And when we were torn away from them, and had set sail, we ran with a strait course to Coos, and the next day to Rhodes, and thence to Patara. 2 And finding a ship passing over to Phenicia, we went aboard and set sail. 3 And coming within sight of Cyprus, and leaving it on the left-hand, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to unload her burden. 4 And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days, who told Paul by the Spirit, Not to go up to Jerusalem. 5 But when we had finished these days, we departed and went our way; and they all attended us out of the city, with their wives and children: and kneeling down on the sea-shore we prayed. 6 And having embraced each other we took ship, and they returned home. 7 And finishing our voyage, we came from Tyre to Ptolemais, and saluting the brethren, we abode with them one day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

finding: Acts 27:6, Jonah 1:3

Phenicia: Acts 15:3

Reciprocal: Acts 11:19 - Phenice

Cross-References

Luke 1:36
And behold thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day, and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.
Romans 9:9
For this is the word of the promise, At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.
Galatians 4:22
For it is written, Abraham had two sons, one by the bond-woman, another by the free-woman.
Hebrews 11:11
By faith Sarah also herself received power to conceive seed, even when she was past age, because she accounted him faithful who had promised.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And finding a ship sailing over unto Phoenicia,.... For it seems that the ship they went aboard at Assos, 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 Acts 11:19.

we went aboard; the said ship:

and set forth; on the voyage.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unto Phenicia - See the notes on Acts 11:19. Phoenicia was on their way to Jerusalem.

Set forth - Sailed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 21:2. Phoenicia — A part of Syria. Acts 11:19; Acts 11:19.


 
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