(now Stanchio or Stanko). This small island of the Grecian Archipelago has several interesting points of connection with the Jews. Herod the Great conferred many favors on the island. St. Paul, on the return from his third missionary journey, passed the night here, after sailing from Miletus. Probably referred to in (Acts 21:1)

Acts xx. 32
... What means, "We came with a straight course unto Coos?" Instead of saying, "we did ...
Then to "Cos," to "Rhodes," to "Patara," twenty-one: then say [1040] five to ...
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