Text -- Acts 27:5 (NET)

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

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Act 27:5

¹ tn Grk “the depths,” the deep area of a sea far enough from land that it is not protected by the coast (L&N 1.73).

² sn Pamphylia was a province in the southern part of Asia Minor; it was west of Cilicia (see BDAG 753 s.v. Παμφυλία).

³ tn BDAG 531 s.v. κατέρχομαι 2 states, “Of ships and those who sail in them, who ‘come down’ fr. the ‘high seas’: arrive, put in…ἔις τι at someth. a harbor 18:22; 21:3; 27:5.”

⁴ sn Myra was a city on the southern coast of Lycia in Asia Minor. This journey from Sidon (v. 3) was 440 mi (700 km) and took about 15 days.

⁵ sn Lycia was the name of a peninsula on the southern coast of Asia Minor between Caria and Pamphylia.