Hechos 21:5

5 Cuando regresamos al barco al final de esa semana, toda la congregación, incluidos las mujeres
y los niños, salieron de la ciudad y nos acompañaron a la orilla del mar. Allí nos arrodillamos, oramos

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 Divisamos la isla de Chipre, la pasamos por nuestra izquierda y llegamos al puerto de Tiro, en Siria, donde el barco tenía que descargar.

4 Desembarcamos, encontramos a los creyentes
del lugar y nos quedamos con ellos una semana. Estos creyentes profetizaron por medio del Espíritu Santo, que Pablo no debía seguir a Jerusalén.

5 Cuando regresamos al barco al final de esa semana, toda la congregación, incluidos las mujeres
y los niños, salieron de la ciudad y nos acompañaron a la orilla del mar. Allí nos arrodillamos, oramos

6 y nos despedimos. Luego abordamos el barco y ellos volvieron a casa.

7 Después de dejar Tiro, la siguiente parada fue Tolemaida, donde saludamos a los hermanos y nos quedamos un día.