Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 21:5

5 Guò le zhè jǐ tiān , wǒmen jiù qǐshēn qián xíng . tāmen zhòngrén tóng qīzi érnǚ , sòng wǒmen dào chéng waì , wǒmen dōu guì zaì àn shàng dǎogào , bǐcǐ cíbié .

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 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.

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 21:5 In-Context

3 Wàng jiàn jū bǐ lù , jiù cóng nánbiān xíng guò , wǎng Xìlìyà qù , wǒmen jiù zaì Tuīluó shàng àn . yīnwei chuán yào zaì nàli xiè huò .

4 Zhǎo zhe le méntǔ , jiù zaì nàli zhù le qī tiān . tāmen beì Shènglíng gǎndòng , duì Bǎoluó shuō , búyào shàng Yēlùsǎlĕng qù .

5 Guò le zhè jǐ tiān , wǒmen jiù qǐshēn qián xíng . tāmen zhòngrén tóng qīzi érnǚ , sòng wǒmen dào chéng waì , wǒmen dōu guì zaì àn shàng dǎogào , bǐcǐ cíbié .

6 Wǒmen shàng le chuán , tāmen jiù huí jiā qù le .

7 Wǒmen cóng Tuīluó xíng jìn le shuǐ lù , lái dào duō lì mǎi , jiù wèn nàli de dìxiōng ān , hé tāmen tóng zhù le yī tiān .