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Contemporary English Version

Acts 21:2

We found a ship going to Phoenicia, so we got on board and sailed off.

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.
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.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And finding a ship passing over to Phenicia, 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 After saying good-by, we sailed straight to Cos. The next day we reached Rhodes and from there sailed on to Patara. 2 We found a ship going to Phoenicia, so we got on board and sailed off. 3 We came within sight of Cyprus and then sailed south of it on to the port of Tyre in Syria, where the ship was going to unload its cargo. 4 We looked up the Lord's followers and stayed with them for a week. The Holy Spirit had told them to warn Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. 5 But when the week was over, we started on our way again. All the men, together with their wives and children, walked with us from the town to the seashore. We knelt on the beach and prayed. 6 Then after saying good-by to each other, we got into the ship, and they went back home. 7 We sailed from Tyre to Ptolemais, where we greeted the followers and stayed with them for a 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

Genesis 17:19
But God answered: No! You and Sarah will have a son. His name will be Isaac, and I will make an everlasting promise to him and his descendants.
Genesis 17:21
But your son Isaac will be born about this time next year, and the promise I am making to you and your family will be for him and his descendants forever.
Genesis 18:10
One of the guests was the Lord , and he said, "I'll come back about this time next year, and when I do, Sarah will already have a son." Sarah was behind Abraham, listening at the entrance to the tent.
Genesis 18:14
I am the Lord ! There is nothing too difficult for me. I'll come back next year at the time I promised, and Sarah will already have a son."
Genesis 21:16
Then she sat down a long way off, because she could not bear to watch him die. And she cried bitterly.
Genesis 21:17
When God heard the boy crying, the angel of God called out to Hagar from heaven and said, "Hagar, why are you worried? Don't be afraid. I have heard your son crying.
Genesis 21:24
And so, Abraham promised.
Genesis 21:25
One day, Abraham told Abimelech, "Some of your servants have taken over one of my wells."
Luke 1:36
Your relative Elizabeth is also going to have a son, even though she is old. No one thought she could ever have a baby, but in three months she will have a son.
Acts 7:8
God said to Abraham, "Every son in each family must be circumcised to show that you have kept your agreement with me." So when Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him. Later, Isaac circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob circumcised his twelve sons.

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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