On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river, where it was customary to find a place of prayer. After sitting down, we spoke to the women who had gathered there.
13. In the day of the Sabbaths. No doubt the Jews sought some place which was solitary and by the way, when they were disposed to pray, because their religion was then everywhere most odious. And God, by their example, meant to teach us what great account we ought to make of the profession of faith; that we do not forsake it either for fear of envy or of dangers.
The Spirit forbade preaching in Asia for good reason: other hands were at work there, the people were not yet prepared, or Christ had other work for Paul, preaching the gospel to Romans, whom the Jews hated most. This westward turn of the light shows where the gospel would flow in ages to come.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 16:6-15
And on the sabbath,.... That is, as the Syriac version renders it, "on the sabbath day"; the Jewish sabbath, the seventh day of the week; though the words may be rendered, "on a certain day of the week" agreeably to Act 20:7 where the first of the sabbath means the first day of the week; but be this as it will, on this day, we...