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Acts 20:15

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20:15We set sail60 from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios.61 The next day we approached62 Samos,63 and the day after that we arrived at Miletus.64

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  1. 60 Grk “setting sail from there.” The participle ἀποπλεύσαντες (apopleusantes) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
  2. 61 Or “offshore from Chios.” Chios was an island in the Aegean Sea off the western coast of Asia Minor with a city of the same name.
  3. 62 Or “crossed over to,” “arrived at.” L&N 54.12 has “παραβάλλω: (a technical, nautical term) to sail up to or near—‘to approach, to arrive at, to sail to.’ παρεβάλομεν εἰς Σάμον ‘we approached Samos’ or ‘we arrived at Samos’ Ac 20:15.”
  4. 63 Samos is an island in the Aegean Sea off the western coast of Asia Minor.
  5. 64 Miletus was a seaport on the western coast of Asia Minor about 40 mi (70 km) south of Ephesus. From Mitylene to Miletus was about 125 mi (200 km).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we went to Miletus.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The next day we set sail from there and arrived off Chios. The day after that we crossed over to Samos, and on the following day arrived at Miletus.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Sailing from there, the next day we arrived off Chios. The following day we crossed over to Samos, and the day after, we came to Miletus.

NLTNew Living Translation

The next day we sailed past the island of Kios. The following day we crossed to the island of Samos, and a day later we arrived at Miletus.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And we sailed from there on the next day, and arrived opposite Chios. And on the next day we approached Samos, and on the following day we came to Miletus.

KJV 1900King James Version

And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.