Acts Chapter 21 verse 15 Holy Bible
And after these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.
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And after these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.
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And after these days, having got our effects ready, we went up to Jerusalem.
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And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.
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After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.
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And after these days, having taken `our' vessels, we were going up to Jerusalem,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - These for those, A.V.; baggage for carriages, A.V. We took up, etc. Απισκευασάμενοι, is the reading of the R.T., as of Mill, Bengel, Griesbach, Lachmann, Tischendorf, Meyer, Alford, etc. It occurs only here in the New Testament, but is common in classical Greek, in the sense of "fitting out for a journey," "lading a ship" or "beasts of burden" with baggage, "collecting baggage," and the like. The ἀποσκευάζεσθαι of the A.V. means" to unload," "to get rid of baggage," and thence generally "to remove," which gives no good sense here.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) After those days we took up our carriages . . .--Better, we took up our baggage. The English word now used always of the vehicle that carries, was in common use at the time of the Authorised version, for the things carried--the luggage or impedimenta of a traveller. So, in 1Samuel 17:22, David leaves his carriage (or, as in the margin, the vessels from upon him) in the hand of the "keeper of the carriage." So, in Udal's translation of Erasmus's Paraphrase of the New Testament (Luke 5:14), the bearers of the paralytic are said to have "taken their 'heavie carriage' to the house-roof." (Comp. also Judges 18:21; Isaiah 10:28; Isaiah 46:1.)
