Commentaries
20:13-16 Paul hastened to Jerusalem, but tried to do good by the way, when going from place to place, as every good man should do. In doing God's work, our own wills and those of our friends must often be crossed; we must not spend time with them when duty calls us another way.
15, 16. came the next day over against Chios—now Scio: one of the most beautiful of those islands between which and the coast the sail is so charming. They appear not to have touched at it.
next day we arrived—"touched" or "put in."
at Samos—another island coming quite close to the mainland, and about as far south of Chios as it is south of Lesbos.
tarried—for the night.
at Trogyllium—an anchorage on the projecting mainland, not more than a mile from the southern extremity of the island of Samos.
next day we came to Miletus—on the mainland; the ancient capital of Ionia, near the mouth of the Meander.