Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
they all brought us on our way with wives and children . . . and we kneeled down on the shore and prayed—(See on Acts 20:36). Observe here that the children of these Tyrian disciples not only were taken along with their parents, but must have joined in this act of solemn worship. See on Ephesians 6:1.
finding disciples—finding out the disciples, implying some search. They would expect such, from what is recorded, Acts 11:19. Perhaps they were not many; yet there were gifted ones among them.
who said to Paul . . . that he should not go up to Jerusalem—(See on Acts 20:23; also see on Acts 21:11-14).
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