Having prepared for the sixty-four-mile journey overland, and comforted by the presence of some from the Caesarean church, Paul went up to Jerusalem (compare Lk 18:31; 19:28). He is received by Mnason (an authentic Greek name, but possibly a Hellenization of Manasseh). Luke identifies him as a Cypriot Christian and one of the early disciples. He may have been among the original 120 or, at least, part of the converted Pentecost throng (Acts 1:15; 11:19-20). His Hellenistic Jewish Christian background makes him the ideal host for Paul's party of Jewish and Gentile Christians.