When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 22. He went up. To Jerusalem is most probably understood, that being the chief object of Saint Paul’s journey. It seems rather extraordinary that Saint Luke should have omitted the express mention of the city. But having told us his object was to be at Jerusalem, he perhaps thought it was enough to say, he went up. Calmet.—In Palestine, the expression, to go up, was sometimes taken for going up to Jerusalem. John 7:8. 10. 12:20. Acts 24:11. And reciprocally in chapter 24:1. to go down, is taken for going down from Jerusalem to Cæsarea. V.—Ibid. In the Scripture, when Antioch and Cæsarea are simply mentioned, Antioch, in Syria, and Cæsarea, in Palestine, are uniformly designated.—To Cæsarea, not in Cappadocia, but in Palestine, from whence he went up to Jerusalem, and then down to Antioch, in Syria. Witham.