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Commentaries on Acts 21:19

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And when he had saluted them,.... James and the elders with him; which was either done by a kiss, as the Arabic version adds; or by asking of their health, and wishing a continuance of it, and all prosperity to attend them: the Ethiopic version reads, they saluted him; and no doubt the salutations were reciprocal: he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

We have, with a great deal of pleasure, attended the apostle in his travels throughout the Gentile nations to preach the gospel, and have seen a great harvest of souls gathered in to Christ; there we have seen likewise what persecutions he endured; yet still out of them all the Lord presently delivered him, 2 Tim. iii. 11. But now we are to attend him to Jerusalem, and there into lasting bonds;...