Hechos 21:5

5 Y pasados aquellos días partimos y emprendimos nuestro viaje mientras que todos ellos, con sus mujeres e hijos, nos acompañaron hasta las afueras de la ciudad. Después de arrodillarnos y orar en la playa, nos despedimos unos de otros.

Hechos 21:5 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 21:5

And when we had accomplished those days
The seven days before mentioned:

we departed and went our way;
from their quarters where they lodged, or from some one house of the disciples, where they met, and had conversed together:

and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we
were out of the city;
that is, the disciples, even all of them that dwelt in that city, with their whole families, their wives and children, accompanied the apostle and those that were with him, through the streets of the city of Tyre, till they came out of it to the shore, where lay the ship they were to go aboard; and which was a mark of their affection and respect to the apostle, as well as a token of their public spirit, that they were not ashamed of Christ and his ministers, nor of their profession of the Gospel:

and we kneeled down on the shore and prayed;
which was agreeably to the custom of the Jews, who had, as Tertullian observes ^F23, their "orationes litterales", their prayers at the sea shore; (See Gill on Acts 16:13).

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Ad nationes, l. 1. c. 13.

Hechos 21:5 In-Context

3 Cuando avistamos Chipre, dejándola a la izquierda, navegamos hacia Siria, y desembarcamos en Tiro porque la nave debía dejar su cargamento allí.

4 Después de hallar a los discípulos, nos quedamos allí siete días, y ellos le decían a Pablo, por el Espíritu, que no fuera a Jerusalén.

5 Y pasados aquellos días partimos y emprendimos nuestro viaje mientras que todos ellos, con sus mujeres e hijos, nos acompañaron hasta las afueras de la ciudad. Después de arrodillarnos y orar en la playa, nos despedimos unos de otros.

6 Entonces subimos al barco y ellos regresaron a sus hogares.

7 Terminado el viaje desde Tiro, llegamos a Tolemaida, y después de saludar a los hermanos, nos quedamos con ellos un día.