Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Had accomplished those days - When those days were passed.
They all brought us on our way - They attended us. See the Acts 15:3 note; Romans 15:24 note; I Corinthians 16:6, I Corinthians 16:11 notes; III John 1:6 note. This was an expression of tender attachment, and of a deep interest in the welfare of Paul and his fellow-travelers.
We kneeled down - See the notes on Acts 20:36.
On the shore - Any place may be proper for prayer. See the notes on John 4:21-24. God is everywhere, and can as easily hear prayer on the seashore as in the most magnificent temple. This is an instance, as well as that in Acts 20:36, where the apostle evidently prayed with the church without a form of prayer. No man can believe that he thus poured forth the desires of his heart at parting, and commended them to God in a prescribed form of words. Scenes like this show more clearly than abstract arguments could do that such a form was not needed, and would not be used. Paul and his fellow-Christians, on the sand of the sea-shore, would pour forth the gushing emotions of their souls in language such as their circumstances would suggest, and no man can read this narrative in a dispassionate manner without believing that they offered an extempore prayer.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Acts 21:5:
Psalms 95:6
Isaiah 23:18
Acts 20:36
Romans 15:24
Ephesians 3:14
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