Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
went with us . . . and brought with them—rather, "brought us to."
One Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, etc.—not an "aged" disciple, but probably "a disciple of old standing," perhaps one of the three thousand converted on the day of Pentecost, or, more likely still, drawn to the Saviour Himself during His lifetime. He had come, probably, with the other Cyprians (Acts 11:20), to Antioch, "preaching the Lord Jesus unto the Grecians," and now he appears settled at Jerusalem.
we took up our carriages—"our baggage."
and went up to Jerusalem—for the fifth time after his conversion, thus concluding his third missionary tour, which proved his last, so far as recorded; for though he accomplished the fourth and last part of the missionary plan sketched out (Acts 19:21) —"After I have been at Jerusalem, I must also see Rome"—it was as "a prisoner of Jesus Christ."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 21:16:
Acts 24:11
1 Timothy 3:6
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