Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Acts 20:15

"And sailing from thence, we came the following day over against Chios; and the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after we came to Miletus." — Acts 20:15 (ASV)

Assos was on the Roman coastal road and faced south toward the island of Lesbos. The boat went on to Mitylene, a splendid port on the southeast coast of Lesbos and the chief city of this largest of the islands of western Asia Minor. From there they went to Kios; then they passed through the channel separating Kios from the mainland of Asia Minor to come to Samos, an island directly west of Ephesus. So the boat arrived at Miletus, the ancient port at the mouth of the Meander River, some thirty miles south of Ephesus.