“And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.”
King James Version (KJV)
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.
“That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.”