Acts 21:1-8 The trip from Miletus to Caesarea.

This trip included multiple stops and took at least five ports of call. Passing by Cyprus they landed at Tyre in Syria. Since they were stuck there for a week they visited the other believers. The distance from Tyre to Caesarea is approximately 90 km, so they could have walked it, but perhaps they did not know how long it would take to unload the ship.

          There is a curious statement about warnings to Paul not to go to Jerusalem. The disciples in Tyre kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem. How exactly they were saying this through the Spirit is not clear. And it seems to have conflicted directly with Paul's determination to go to Jerusalem, which he seems to have had the conviction also came from the Spirit. How should we interpret these warnings? How did Paul interpret them? One possibility is that Paul was mistaken about his belief that the Spirit was leading him to Jerusalem, and The Lord was trying to tell him that. Another possibility, evidently the interpretation that Paul applied, was that this was confirmation that when he got to Jerusalem, he would be arrested and endure hardship.

          Paul and his companions pressed on, after the ship was unloaded, and then sailed to Caesarea with one intervening port call. In Caesarea they stayed with Philip the evangelist, one of the original seven deacons, (Acts 6:5), who was much better known for his evangelism. (Acts 8:5-40)