And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we went to Miletus.
Paul is hastening towards Jerusalem, but strives to do all the good he can by the way, ōs en parodō̂ "as it were by the by." He had called at Troas, and done good there; and now he makes a sort of coasting voyage, the merchants would call it a trading voyage, going from place to place, and no doubt endeavouring to make every place...
Commenting on Acts 20:13-16
For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus,.... That is, to sail by it, without calling at it, as he did, for it lay by the shore before he came to Miletus; but he chose not to stop there, fearing he should be detained by the brethren there: because he would not spend the time in Asia; of which Ephesus was the metropolis: for he...
Verse 15. Over against. Opposite to. Into the neighborhood of, or near to it. Chios, called also Coos, an island in the Archipelago, between Lesbos and Samos. It is on the coast of Asia Minor, and is now called Scio. It will long be remembered now as the seat of a dreadful massacre of almost all its inhabitants by the Turks in 1823. At Samos.