Acts 21:6
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New International Version (©2011)
After saying goodbye to each other, we went aboard the ship, and they returned home.

New Living Translation (©2007)
and said our farewells. Then we went aboard, and they returned home.

English Standard Version (©2001)
and said farewell to one another. Then we went on board the ship, and they returned home.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
we said good-bye to one another. Then we boarded the ship, and they returned home.

International Standard Version (©2012)
and said goodbye to each other. Then we reboarded the ship, and they went back home.

NET Bible (©2006)
we said farewell to one another. Then we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And we kissed one another, and we boarded the ship, and they returned to their homes.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
and said goodbye to each other. Then we went aboard the ship, and the disciples went back home.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And when we had taken our leave one of another, we boarded ship; and they returned home again.

American King James Version
And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.

American Standard Version
and we went on board the ship, but they returned home again.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when we had bid one another farewell, we took ship; and they returned home.

Darby Bible Translation
And having embraced one another, we went on board ship, and they returned home.

English Revised Version
and bade each other farewell; and we went on board the ship, but they returned home again.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.

Weymouth New Testament
we took leave of one another; and we went on board, while they returned home.

World English Bible
After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.

Young's Literal Translation
and having embraced one another, we embarked in the ship, and they returned to their own friends.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:1-7 Providence must be acknowledged when our affairs go on well. Wherever Paul came, he inquired what disciples were there, and found them out. Foreseeing his troubles, from love to him, and concern for the church, they wrongly thought it would be most for the glory of God that he should continue at liberty; but their earnestness to dissuade him from it, renders his pious resolution the more illustrious. He has taught us by example, as well as by rule, to pray always, to pray without ceasing. Their last farewell was sweetened with prayer.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 6. - And bade each other farewell; and we went on board the ship, but, etc., for and when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and, etc., A.V. and T.R. The ἀπασπάζεσθαι of the R.T. occurs nowhere else, except in Himerius in the fourth century after Christ. Went on board; ἐπέβημες εἰς, the same phrase as ἐπιβαίνειν εἰς Ἱερουσαλήμ in ver. 5.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when we had taken our leave one of another,.... The Alexandrian copy reads, "having prayed, we saluted one another"; with a kiss, as in Acts 20:37 and so parted:

we took ship; or went aboard the ship,

and they returned home again; to their own houses, as the Syriac version renders it; for by "their own", as it is in the Greek text, cannot be meant their families, their wives, and children, for these were along with them, but their habitations; see John 16:32.

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Paul's Journey to Jerusalem
…5And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed. 6And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again. 7And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brothers, and stayed with them one day.

Luke 15:20 So he got up and went to his father. "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
John 19:27 and to the disciple, "Here is your mother." From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.