John Gill Commentary Acts 21:15

"And after these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem." — Acts 21:15 (ASV)

And after those days we took up our carriages
Or prepared themselves, both for their journey, and for whatever trials and exercises they were to meet with; they took up their bundles, which hitherto were brought by sea, and now put them upon beasts, going by land from Caesarea:

and went up to Jerusalem ;
which stood on higher ground, and was, as Josephus ^F14 says, six hundred furlongs, or seventy five miles distant.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F14: De Bello Jud. l. 1. c. 3. sect. 5.