Said good-bye is the same verb as appeared in verse 1 of this chapter. It is interesting to note that the Revised Standard Version, New English Bible, and Jerusalem Bible, all of which rendered this word in a different way in verse 1, agree that the meaning here is “to say good-bye.”

Went on board is another technical sailing term used by Luke.

Home is the same expression rendered to his own country by the Good News Translation in John 1.11. It is an idiomatic expression referring to one’s home, but in the Gospel of John the reference is to one’s home in the expanded sense of the word, that is, one’s homeland.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on The Acts of the Apostles. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1972. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .