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‏ Acts 21:1

Summary for Acts 21:1-18: 21:1-18  a This “we” passage (see study notes on 16:10; 20:5-15) covers Paul’s journey from Miletus to Jerusalem at the close of the third missionary journey. 21:1  b Cos was an island in the Aegean Sea with a major trade port.

• Rhodes is a large Aegean island that featured the Colossus, a huge statue 100 feet (30 meters) tall that once stood at the entrance to the city. In Paul’s time, the statue lay where it had fallen during an earthquake over 200 years earlier; it would not be removed for another 600 years.

• Patara was the major port of Lycia, located on the coast opposite Rhodes.
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