When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.
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When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and came to Mitylene.
And when he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene.
And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.
And when he met us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.
And when he came up with us at Assos, we took him in the ship and went on to Mitylene.
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We often find Paul parting from the disciples. For behold again, he himself goes afoot: giving them the easier way, and himself choosing the more painful. He went afoot, both that he might arrange many matters, and by way of training them to bear a parting from him. "And when he had joined us at Thasos, having taken him on board, we came to Mytilene; and having sailed thence on the morrow, we come over against Chios"-then they pass the island-"and on the next day we touched at Samos, and having stopped at Trogylium, on the following day we came to Miletus."
Wherefore does the writer say where they came, and where they went to? To show in the first place that he was making the voyage more leisurely-and this upon human grounds-and sailing past (some): also (for the same reason he tells) where he made a stay, and what parts he sailed past...
Matthew Henry · Verses 13–16
Paul hastened to Jerusalem, but tried to do good by the way, when going from place to place, as every good man should do. In doing God's work, our own wills and those of our friends must often be crossed; we must not spend time with them when duty calls us another way.
Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.
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