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22. εἰς Καισάρειαν, to Cæsarea, This was the home of Philip the Evangelist, and we may suppose that St Paul would make the success of his distant mission known to his fellow-labourer. He made the house of Philip his home in Cæsarea on a later occasion (Act 21:8).
ἀναβάς, having gone up, i.e. from the coast to the city of Jerusalem,
καὶ ἀσπασάμενος τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, and having saluted the Church. This must strike every reader as a very brief notice of a visit to the centre of all Church life and action at this time. And we cannot but be surprised that there is no mention (as in Act 14:27) of a gathering of the Church, and of the report of what the great missionary had been enabled to effect. Dr Farrar (St Paul, II. 5) suggests that St Paul met with a cold and ungracious reception, and that the position which he assumed towards the Law in his preaching to Gentile converts raised him up adversaries among the Christians in Jerusalem, who were naturally zealous for the Law. It is certainly strange that even the name of the city is not mentioned, nor are we told a word about the fulfilment of the vow. For some reason or other, the Apostle hastened, as soon as his salutations were ended, to the more congenial society of the Christians at Antioch who had rejoiced over his success on a former visit.