Acts 20:13-16

Troas to Miletus. In the Armenian Catena we read: But Luke and those with me came on the vessel; words which, if we were sure of their really being in the journal, would show that Luke was not its author. Preuschen thinks the original text was, But I, Luke, and those with me, the present text being grammatically impossible, and the emendation in the Armenian easy.

Acts 20:13. Assos, about twelve miles from Troas by land, on a hilly road. A ship has to round Cape Lekton. The Gr. does not compel us to think that Paul walked the distance; he may have ridden.

Acts 20:14. Mitylene, the capital of Lesbos, is not far from Assos. For Chios and Samos, see EBi, HDB.

Acts 20:15. The call at Trogyllium is omitted in the corrected text. The voyage of four days was made with the N. wind, which blows at that season early in the day and dies away later. The ship seems to have been at the command of the party. Acts 20:16 speaks of haste at the beginning of the journey; it appears to have been unnecessary later (cf. Acts 21:4), and the reason for avoiding Ephesus may have lain in the circumstances of Paul's leaving that place.

Acts 20:16. From the days of unleavened bread (Acts 20:6) to Pentecost is a period of six weeks, and Paul seems to have reached Jerusalem at the time of a festival (Acts 21:26).