Acts 21:1 meaning and explanation
After we had torn ourselves away from them, we sailed directly to Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
Acts 21:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The "we" signals that the author, Luke, was traveling with Paul, and this verse begins the final leg of the journey to Jerusalem. The phrase "torn ourselves away" is vivid: the farewell at Miletus in the previous chapter was painful, and leaving the Ephesian elders cost something.
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