Acts 21:8 - Exposition

On the morrow for the next day A.V.; we for we that were of Paul ' s company, A.V. and T.R.; entering we for we entered … and, A.V. ; who for which, A.V. Unto Caesarea . They seem to have come from Ptolemais to Caesarea by land, a two days' journey; the word. ἐξελθόντες , as Howson justly remarks, pointing to a land-journey. Philip the evangelist . When last we heard of him ( Acts 8:40 ) he had just reached Caesarea; apparently he had been working there as an evangelist ever since. His old home at Jerusalem ( Acts 6:5 ) had been broken up by the persecution ( Acts 8:5 ), and thus the deacon had become an evangelist ( Acts 8:12 ). Evangelists are mentioned by St. Paul( Ephesians 4:11 ) as one of the higher orders of the Christian ministry; and Timothy is bid "do the work of an evangelist" ( 2 Timothy 4:5 ). In later times the term was restricted to the four writers of the Gospels. Philip's old association with Stephen in the diaconate must have been keenly remembered by St. Paul. We abode with him . This seems to imply that Philip was well to do, and had a good house.