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Good News Translation

Acts 21:2

There we found a ship that was going to Phoenicia, so we went aboard and sailed away.

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.
Contemporary English Version
We found a ship going to Phoenicia, so we got on board and sailed off.
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.
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 We said good-bye to them and left. After sailing straight across, we came to Cos; the next day we reached Rhodes, and from there we went on to Patara. 2 There we found a ship that was going to Phoenicia, so we went aboard and sailed away. 3 We came to where we could see Cyprus, and then sailed south of it on to Syria. We went ashore at Tyre, where the ship was going to unload its cargo. 4 There we found some believers and stayed with them a week. By the power of the Spirit they told Paul not to go to Jerusalem. 5 But when our time with them was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, together with their wives and children, went with us out of the city to the beach, where we all knelt and prayed. 6 Then we said good-bye to one another, and we went on board the ship while they went back home. 7 We continued our voyage, sailing from Tyre to Ptolemais, where we greeted the believers 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 said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:21
But I will keep my covenant with your son Isaac, who will be born to Sarah about this time next year."
Genesis 18:10
One of them said, "Nine months from now I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was behind him, at the door of the tent, listening.
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? As I said, nine months from now I will return, and Sarah will have a son."
Genesis 21:16
and sat down about a hundred yards away. She said to herself, "I can't bear to see my child die." While she was sitting there, she began to cry.
Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy crying, and from heaven the angel of God spoke to Hagar, "What are you troubled about, Hagar? Don't be afraid. God has heard the boy crying.
Genesis 21:24
Abraham said, "I promise."
Genesis 21:25
Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well which the servants of Abimelech had seized.
Luke 1:36
Remember your relative Elizabeth. It is said that she cannot have children, but she herself is now six months pregnant, even though she is very old.
Acts 7:8
Then God gave to Abraham the ceremony of circumcision as a sign of the covenant. So Abraham circumcised Isaac a week after he was born; Isaac circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob circumcised his twelve sons, the famous ancestors of our race.

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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