And finding a ship sailing over unto Phoenicia,.... For it seems that the ship they went aboard at Assos, Ac 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 Ac 11:19.
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Acts 21:2
Acts 21:2
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