Acts 21:5

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When our time was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us outside of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying,

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  • Acts 20:36 : 36 When he had said these things, he knelt down with them all and prayed.
  • Acts 20:38 : 38 especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.
  • Acts 9:40 : 40 But Peter sent them all outside, knelt down, and prayed. Turning to the body, he said,“Tabitha, get up.” Then she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
  • Acts 15:3 : 3 So they were sent on their way by the church, and as they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, they were relating at length the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.
  • Acts 17:10 : 10 Paul and Silas at Berea The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.
  • Deut 29:11-12 : 11 your infants, your wives, and the resident foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water– 12 so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the LORD your God is making with you today.
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 If you have no desire to worship the LORD, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 8:54 : 54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the LORD, he got up from before the altar of the LORD where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky.
  • 2 Chr 20:13 : 13 All the men of Judah were standing before the LORD, along with their infants, wives, and children.
  • Neh 12:43 : 43 And on that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced, for God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard from far away.
  • Ps 95:6 : 6 Come! Let’s bow down and worship! Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Creator!
  • Matt 14:21 : 21 Not counting women and children, there were about five thousand men who ate.
  • Mark 1:40 : 40 Cleansing a Leper Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help.“If you are willing, you can make me clean,” he said.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 21:6-8
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    6we said farewell to one another. Then we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes.

    7We continued the voyage from Tyre and arrived at Ptolemais, and when we had greeted the brothers, we stayed with them for one day.

    8On the next day we left and came to Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

  • Acts 21:14-19
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    14Because he could not be persuaded, we said no more except,“The Lord’s will be done.”

    15After these days we got ready and started up to Jerusalem.

    16Some of the disciples from Caesarea came along with us too, and brought us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, a disciple from the earliest times, with whom we were to stay.

    17When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers welcomed us gladly.

    18The next day Paul went in with us to see James, and all the elders were there.

    19When Paul had greeted them, he began to explain in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • Acts 20:36-38
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    36When he had said these things, he knelt down with them all and prayed.

    37They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,

    38especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

  • Acts 21:1-4
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    1Paul’s Journey to Jerusalem After we tore ourselves away from them, we put out to sea, and sailing a straight course, we came to Cos, on the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

    2We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went aboard, and put out to sea.

    3After we sighted Cyprus and left it behind on our port side, we sailed on to Syria and put in at Tyre, because the ship was to unload its cargo there.

    4After we located the disciples, we stayed there seven days. They repeatedly told Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

  • Acts 16:10-13
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    10After Paul saw the vision, we attempted immediately to go over to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.

    11Arrival at Philippi We put out to sea from Troas and sailed a straight course to Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis,

    12and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of that district of Macedonia, a Roman colony. We stayed in this city for some days.

    13On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the side of the river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down and began to speak to the women who had assembled there.

  • Acts 20:5-7
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    5These had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.

    6We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to the others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

    7On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul began to speak to the people, and because he intended to leave the next day, he extended his message until midnight.

  • Acts 28:12-15
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    12We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days.

    13From there we cast off and arrived at Rhegium, and after one day a south wind sprang up and on the second day we came to Puteoli.

    14There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome.

    15The brothers from there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. When he saw them, Paul thanked God and took courage.

  • Acts 21:12
    73%

    12When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

  • Acts 20:13-15
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    13The Voyage to Miletus We went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. He himself was intending to go there by land.

    14When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went to Mitylene.

    15We set sail from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios. The next day we approached Samos, and the day after that we arrived at Miletus.

  • Acts 18:21-22
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    21but said farewell to them and added,“I will come back to you again if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus,

    22and when he arrived at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church at Jerusalem and then went down to Antioch.

  • Acts 28:10
    71%

    10They also bestowed many honors, and when we were preparing to sail, they gave us all the supplies we needed.

  • Acts 27:7
    71%

    7We sailed slowly for many days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus. Because the wind prevented us from going any farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone.

  • Acts 18:18
    70%

    18Paul Returns to Antioch in Syria Paul, after staying many more days in Corinth, said farewell to the brothers and sailed away to Syria accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because he had made a vow.

  • Acts 20:1-2
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    70%

    1Paul Travels Through Macedonia and Greece After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them and saying farewell, he left to go to Macedonia.

    2After he had gone through those regions and spoken many words of encouragement to the believers there, he came to Greece,

  • Acts 27:5
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    5After we had sailed across the open sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we put in at Myra in Lycia.

  • Acts 20:11
    69%

    11Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

  • Acts 15:36
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    36Paul and Barnabas Part Company After some days Paul said to Barnabas,“Let’s return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing.”

  • Acts 16:16
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    16Paul and Silas Are Thrown Into Prison Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune-telling.

  • 1 Thess 3:1
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    1So when we could bear it no longer, we decided to stay on in Athens alone.

  • Acts 17:14
    69%

    14Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.

  • Acts 27:2
    69%

    2We went on board a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to various ports along the coast of the province of Asia and put out to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.

  • Acts 13:13
    69%

    13Paul and Barnabas at Pisidian Antioch Then Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

  • Acts 27:40-41
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    40So they slipped the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage that bound the steering oars together. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and steered toward the beach.

    41But they encountered a patch of crosscurrents and ran the ship aground; the bow stuck fast and could not be moved, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves.

  • Acts 20:18
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    18When they arrived, he said to them,“You yourselves know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia,

  • Acts 21:10
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    10While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.