Verse 5. Had accomplished those days. When those days were passed.
They all brought us on our way. They attended us. See Barnes |Ac 15:3|; See Barnes |Ro 15:24|; See Barnes |1 Co 16:6,11|; See Barnes |3 Jo 1:6|.
This was an expression of tender attachment, and of a deep interest in the welfare of Paul and his fellow-travellers.
We kneeled down. See Barnes |Ac 20:36|.
On the shore. Any place may be proper for prayer. See Barnes |Joh 4:21, also Joh 4:22-24. God is everywhere, and can as easily hear the prayer of the humble on the sea-shore as in the most magnificent temple. This is an instance, as well as that in Ac 20:36, where the apostle evidently prayed with the church without a form of prayer. No man can believe that he thus poured forth the desires of his heart at parting, and commended them to God, in a prescribed form of words. Besides that, there is not the least evidence that such a form was then used in the Christian church: scenes like this show more clearly than abstract arguments could do, that such a form was not needed, and would not be used. Paul and his fellow Christians, on the sand of the sea-shore, would pour forth the gushing emotions of their souls in language such as their circumstances would suggest, and such as such a scene would demand. And it is presumed to be impossible that any man can read this narrative in a dispassionate manner without believing that they offered an extempore prayer.
{*} |accomplished| |completed| {+} |brought| |conducted| {a} |kneeled| Ac 20:36