Sailing on from there, we arrived the next day opposite Chios. The day after that we arrived at Samos, and on the following day we came to Miletus.
Paul won't ride when he can walk and do good by the way. He takes a rough road alone, not to spare himself but to deny himself, keeping his body under and his heart free for God and for serving others as he goes.
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Commenting on Acts 20:13-16
For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus,.... That is, to sail by it, without calling at it, as he did, for it lay by the shore before he came to Miletus; but he chose not to stop there, fearing he should be detained by the brethren there: because he would not spend the time in Asia; of which Ephesus was the metropolis: for he...
Verse 15. Over against. Opposite to. Into the neighborhood of, or near to it. Chios, called also Coos, an island in the Archipelago, between Lesbos and Samos. It is on the coast of Asia Minor, and is now called Scio. It will long be remembered now as the seat of a dreadful massacre of almost all its inhabitants by the Turks in 1823. At Samos.