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Acts 20:15 Explained in Context

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Verse 15. And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.

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Role in This Section

Traces the coastal route past Chios, Samos, and Trogyllium to Miletus.

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  • Acts 20:13–20:16

Read Acts 20:15 with 20:13–20:16. In isolation, this contribution—traces the coastal route past Chios, Samos, and Trogyllium to Miletus—can be mistaken for the scene's whole claim, detached from its speaker or narrator, or separated from its outcome. The complete unit establishes: Companions sail while Paul travels overland to Assos, then reunite and move through coastal stops; Paul bypasses Ephesus in haste to reach Jerusalem by Pentecost.

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Read Acts 20:13–20:16 — The team follows a deliberate coastal route
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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society

USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.

Exact location: Acts 20:13–20:16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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Greek textual evidence

The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition

Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos

Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010

Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.

Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 20:13-20:16

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